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A VOYAGE T O 
177 s - 
February. 
t_ y 
mean refult of thefe obfervations, the longitude of the 
road is 
200 
202 ° 
200 ° 
13 
o' 
21 ' 
o" Eaff, 
Time-keeper 5 Greenwich rate, 
(Ulietea rate 
The latitude of the road, by the mean of? 0 r, 
two meridian obfervations of the fun 3 21 ^ 01t 
The obfervations for the variation of the compafs, did 
not agree very well among themfelves. It is true, they 
were not all made exactly in the fame fpot. The different 
fituations, however, could make very little difference. But 
the whole will be beft feen by cafting an eye on the follow¬ 
ing table. 
Time. 
Latitude. 
Longitude. 
Compafs. , r f 
r Variation. 
January 18th. A. M. 
21° I2 / 
200° 41' < 
r Gregory’s io° 
| Knight’s 9 0 
(.Martin’s io° 
1 o' 10" 
20' 5 " 
4 ' A 0 " 
19th. P. M. 
21° 51' 
200° 20 7 “ 
f Knight’s io° 
[_ Gregory’s ii° 
t! I0 // 
12' 30 // 
28th. A. M. 
21° 22' 
199 0 56'| 
r Gregory’s 9 0 
Knight’s 9 0 
L Martin’s io° 
I ' 20 // 
I' 2 5" 
18' 5" 
. 28th. P. M. 
21° 36' 
199 0 50'< 
r Gregory’s n° 
! Knight’s io° 
L Martin’s ii° 
2I / IS" 
40' o" 
37/ 5Q // 
Means of the above 
21° 29' 
200° 12' 
On January 18th. 
21° 12' 
200° 41' 
the North end of 
the needle dipped 42 0 i' 
} 
i 
i 
I 
Mean 
Variation. 
9° 5i' 38" 
io° 37' 20" 
9 0 26' 57" 
ii° 12 * $ 0 ° 
io° 17' 11" 
The tides, at the Sandwich Iflands, are fo inconffderable, 
that, with the great furf which broke againft the fhore, it 
Was hardly poflible to tell, at any time, whether we had 
high or low water, or whether it ebbed or flowed. On the 
South 
