THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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Two former Voyages, about this country and its inhabi¬ 
tants, Mr. Anderfon’s Remarks, as ferving either to confirm 
or to correct our former accounts, may not be fuperfluous. 
He had been three times with me in Queen Charlotte’s 
Sound, during my laft Voyage; and, after this fourth vifit, 
what he thought proper to record, may be confidered as the 
refult of fufficient obfervation. The Reader will find it in 
the next Chapter; and I have nothing farther to add, be¬ 
fore I quit New Zealand, but to give fome account of the 
aftronomical and nautical obfervations made during our 
flay there. 
The Longitude of the Obfervatory in Ship 
Cove, by a mean of 103 fets of obferva¬ 
tions, each fet confifling of fix or more 
obferved diflances, was - - - 174 0 25' I5 // Eafl. 
By the time-keeper, at Greenwich rate, it 
was - - - - - - 175 26 30 
By ditto, at the Cape rate, it was - - 174 56 12 
Variation of the compafs, being the mean 
of fix needles, obferved on board the 
fhip - - - - - -12400 Eaft. 
By the fame needles on fliore, it was - 13 53 o 
The dip of the South end, obferved on 
fhore, was - - - - 63 42 o 
By a mean of the refults of eleven days obfervations, the 
time-keeper was too flow for mean time, on February 22 at 
noon, by n h - 50' 37",396; and fhe was found to be lofing 
on mean time, at the rate of 2",913 per day. From this rate 
the longitude will be computed, till fome other opportunity 
offers to afcertain her rate anew. The aftronomical clock, 
with 
1777. 
February, 
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