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| A TABLE of the VARIATION of the COMPASS, &c. continued. | ||||||
| TIME. | Latitude in at Noon. | Longitude in at Noon from London. | Variation. | REMARKS. | ||
| 1767. | South. | West. | East. | |||
| July | 2. | P.M. | 25° 0° | 133° 3° | 2° 4° | Off Pitcairn's Island. |
| 3. | 25 00 | 136 16 | 2 30 | |||
| 4. | A.M. | 25 24 | 137 18 | 3 43 | ||
| 5. | A.M. | 24 56 | 137 23 | 5 24 | ||
| 6. | A.M. | 24 32 | 138 31 | 4 16 | ||
| 7. | A.M. | 24 10 | 139 55 | 5 12 | ||
| P.M. | -- -- | --- -- | 4 02 | |||
| 8. | A.M. | 23 46 | 139 55 | 5 56 | ||
| 10. | P.M. | 21 38 | 141 36 | 4 20 | ||
| 12. | A.M. | 20 36 | 145 39 | 4 40 | ||
| 20 38 | 146 00 | 5 00 | ||||
| 13. | P.M. | 21 07 | 147 44 | 5 46 | ||
| 15. | A.M. | 21 46 | 150 50 | 6 23 | ||
| 16. | P.M. | 22 02 | 151 09 | 6 34 | ||
| 19. | P.M. | 19 50 | 153 59 | 6 08 | ||
| 20. | P.M. | 19 08 | 156 15 | 7 09 | Crossing the South Sea | |
| 21. | P.M. | 18 43 | 158 27 | 7 38 | ||
| 23. | P.M. | 16 22 | 162 32 | 6 05 | ||
| 24. | P.M. | 14 19 | 163 34 | 6 29 | ||
| 25. | A.M. | 12 13 | 164 50 | 9 30 | ||
| P.M. | -- -- | --- -- | 9 40 | |||
| 26. | A.M. | 10 01 | 166 52 | 9 00 | ||
| 28. | A.M. | 9 50 | 171 26 | 9 04 | ||
| 30. | A.M. | 9 50 | 175 38 | 9 32 | ||
| P.M. | - -- | --- -- | 9 00 | |||
| August | 1. | A.M. | 9 53 | 179 33 | 10 04 | |
| East. | ||||||
| 2. | A.M. | 10 09 | 178 58 | 10 30 | ||
| 4. | A.M. | 10 22 | 177 10 | 10 54 | ||
| 5. | A.M. | 10 35 | 175 50 | 11 14 | ||
| P.M. | -- -- | --- -- | 10 52 | |||
| 7. | P.M. | 10 52 | 172 23 | 11 17 | ||
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Voyaging Accounts |  |
© Derived from Volume I of the London 1773 Edition: National Library of Australia call no. FERG 7243, page 672, 2004
Published by kind permission of the Library
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