Gentle gales with some Showers in the night In the Evening found the Variation to be 3°..24' West, and in the Morning I took severl Observations of the Sun and Moon, the Mean result of which gave carried on to Noon gave 276°..19' West Longde from Greenwich which is 2° to the Westward of that given by the Log; this I beleive to be owing to a following sea which I have not yet allowd for. I judge it to be 6 Ms a Day sence we have had the SE Trade wind —