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From Saint George's Channel to Mindanao (continued) I now steered N.W. by N. to get from under the sun, and had light winds at E.S.E. with which almost any ship but the Swallow would have made good way, but with every possible advantage she went at a heavy rate. We now found our variation begin again to decrease, as will appear by the following table: Latitude. Longitude from Queen Charlotte's Fore-land. Variation. 4° S. 8° 3° W. 4° 4° E. Upon the line. 9 40 W. 4 17 E. 30'N 10 30 W. 3 10 E. 2° N. 11 40 W. 2 30 E. 2° 50' N. 12 10 W. 2     E. Voyaging Accounts © Derived from Volume I of the London 1773 Edition: National Library of Australia call no. FERG 7243, pages 609 - 610, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/hv01/609.html