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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. | ||||
| 1769. | South. | East. | West. | |||||
| Jan. | 15. | P.M. | 21° 0° | 3° 5° | 16° 3° | From the Cape to the Island of St. Helena. | ||
| 18. | P.M. | 17 05 | 0 10 | 14 38 | ||||
| West. | ||||||||
| 19. | P.M. | 16 06 | 1 38 | 13 46 | ||||
| 25. | P.M. | 14 22 | 7 04 | 12 30 | ||||
| 26. | P.M. | 12 54 | 8 05 | 11 47 | From the Island St. Helena to the Island of Ascension. | |||
| 27. | P.M. | 11 36 | 9 25 | 11 40 | ||||
| 28. | P.M. | 10 26 | 10 36 | 10 46 | ||||
| Feb. | 2. | P.M. | 6 45 | 14 42 | 9 34 | |||
| 3. | P.M. | 5 04 | 15 45 | 9 04 | ||||
| 4. | A.M. | 3 26 | 16 49 | 9 10 | ||||
| 5. | P.M. | 2 01 | 17 34 | 8 58 | ||||
| 6. | P.M. | 0 20 | 18 27 | 8 32 | ||||
| North. | ||||||||
| 7. | P.M. | 0 58 | 19 24 | 8 37 | ||||
| 8. | A.M. | 1 56 | 20 16 | 8 25 | ||||
| 10. | P.M. | 2 39 | 28 58 | 7 21 | ||||
| 15. | P.M. | 6 38 | 32 40 | 4 35 | From the Island of Ascension to England. | |||
| 16. | P.M. | 8 03 | 24 18 | 6 09 | ||||
| 19. | P.M. | 12 06 | 24 34 | 6 48 | ||||
| 21. | P.M. | 14 39 | 27 15 | 6 12 | ||||
| 26. | A.M. | 23 54 | 28 15 | 6 00 | ||||
| March | 3. | P.M. | 32 33 | 23 35 | 13 26 | |||
| 4. | A.M. | 34 02 | 22 32 | 13 43 | ||||
| 5. | P.M. | 35 30 | 21 56 | 14 53 | ||||
| 6. | A.M. | 36 46 | 21 23 | 15 15 | ||||
| P.M. | -- -- | -- -- | 14 58 | |||||
| Between the Islands of Tercera and St. Michael | 13 36 | |||||||
| 28. | P.M. | 39 09 | 19 02 | 16 46 | ||||
N.B. The ill sailing of the Swallow prevented me from getting a sufficient number of Soundings to make a separate Table.
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© Derived from Volume I of the London 1773 Edition: National Library of Australia call no. FERG 7243, page 676, 2004
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