The former part Little wind and fine clear weather.   the air full as warm as in the same degree of North Latitude at the correspondaent season of the year;   the SW swell still keeps up notwithstand the gale hath been over about thirty hours, a proof that there is no land near in that quarter--   the remainder part of this Day fresh breezes and clear   at 9 am took three sets of Observations of the Sun and Moon in order to find the Longitude of the Ship —

Voyaging Accounts