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A VOYAGE TO 
1778. ne£led, either by land or by ice; which opinion received 
October.^ f ome ftrength, by our never having any hollow waves from 
the North, and by our feeing ice almolt the whole way 
acrofs. 
The following are the refults of the feveral obfervations 
made alhore, during our Hay in the harbour of Samga- 
noodha. 
The latitude, by the mean of feveral ob- 
ferved meridian altitudes of the fun - 
By the mean of twenty fets of ’ 
lunar obfervations, with the 
The Ion- fun Eaft of the moon 
gitude^ By the mean of fourteen fets,l 
with the fun and liars Well> 
of the moon j 
The mean of thefe 
The longitude affumed 
By the mean of equal altitudes of the fun, 
taken on the 12th, 14th, 17th, and 21ft, 
the time-keeper was found to be loling 
on mean time 8 ", 8 each day ; and, on 
the lalt of thefe days, was too flow for 
mean time 13 11 46 m 43 s , 98. Hence the 
time-keeper mull have been too How, 
on the 4th, the day after our arrival, by 
13 11 44 111 26% 62 ; and the longitude, by 
Greenwich rate, will be I3 h 23“ 53 s , 8 - 
By king George’s (or Nootka) Sound rate, 
I2 h 56”' 40 s , 4 - - 
The 30th of June, the time-keeper, by 
the fame rate, gave 
53° 5' o" 
193 47 45 
193 11 45 
193 29 45 
193 30 o 
200 58 27 
194 10 6 
193 12 o 
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