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544 PHIPPS’s JOURNAL.
log-line, which was marked forty-nine feet ; the glafs was found, by comparing it
with the time-keeper, to run thirty feconds: at noon latitude obferved 52° 16’ 54”,
longitude by the watch 1° 30’ 15” E.
Angle between Southwold and Walderfwick, - - 10° 39’
Walderfwick and Dunwich, - - - - 20:22
Dunwich and Aldborough, - - - - 46s gg 4
Southwold N. W. half N. fuppofed diftance three leagues. We concluded the lati-
tude of Southwold to be 52° 22’, and longitude 1° 18’ 15” E. The dip was
2° 22% .
The feventh, the wind was northerly all day, and blew frefh in the morning. We
had ftood far out in the night and the day before, to clear the Lemon and Ower.
The eighth, little wind moft part of the day, with avery heavy fwell.. Stood in for
the land. At half paft ten longitude by the watch o° 41/ 15” E. At noon the lati-
tude was 53° 38’ 37”. We faw the high land near the Spurn, in the evening.
‘The ninth, about noon Flamborough Head bore N. W. by N. diftant about fix
miles: we were by obfervation in latitude 54° 4’ 54”, longitude o° 27’ 15” E.; which
makes Flamborough Head, in latitude 54° 9’, longitude 0° 19 15’ E. In the after-
noon we were off Scarborough. Almoft calm in the evening.
‘The tenth, anchored in the morning for the tide in Robin Hood’s Bay, with little
wind at N. W.: worked up to Whitby Road next tide, and anchored there at four in
the afternoon, in fifteen fathom, with very little wind.
The eleventh, calm in the morning ; completed our water, live ftock, and vege-
tables. At nine in the morning longitude obferved by the watch 1° 55/ 30” W.;
Whitby abbey bore S. half W. Weighed with the wind at S. E., and fteered N. E.
by N. to get fo far into the mid-channel as to make the wind fair eafterly or wefterly,
without being too near either fhore, before we were clear of Shetland and the coatt
of Norway.
The twelfth, the wind at S. E. and the fhip well advanced, I ordered the allowance
of liquor to be altered, ferving the fhip’s company one. fourth of their allowance in
beer, and the other three fourths in brandy ; by which means the beer was made to
lait the whole voyage, and the water confiderably faved. One half of this allowance
was ferved immediately after dinner, and the other half in the evening. It was now
light enough all night to read upon deck.
The thirteenth, the weather {till fine but confiderably lefs wind than the day before,
and in the afternoon more northerly. The longitude at ten in the morning was found
by my watch o° 6’ W. We took three obfervations of the moon and fun for the
longitude ; the extremes differed from one another near two degrees : the mean of the
three gave the longitude 1° 37’ £. At noon the latitude obferved was 59° 32’ 31”.
We found a difference of 36’ between the latitude by dead reckoning and obfervation,
the fhip being fo much more northerly than the reckoning. ‘The diftance by this
log was too fhort by forty-three miles. A log marked forty-five feet, according to the
old method, would have agreed with the obfervation within two miles in the two days’
run. ‘The circumftance of {teering upon a meridian, which afforded me fuch frequent
opportunities of detecting the errors of the log, induced me to obferve with care the
comparative accuracy of the different methods of dividing the line, recommended by
mathematicians, or practifed by feamen. In the afternoon I went on board the ,Car-
cals to compare the time-keepers by my watch. At fix in the evening the longitude
by my watch 0° 4’. ‘This evening the fun fet at twenty-four minutes paft nine, Sa
ore
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