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PHIPPS’S JOURNAL. 545
bore about N: Ni W. by the compafs.. ‘The clouds made a beautiful appearance lone
after to the northward, from the refleion of the fun below the horizon. It was
quite light all night : theGarcals made the final for feeing the land in the evening.
The:fourteenth, little wind, or calm, all day; but very clear and fine weather.
Made feveral different obfervations by the fan and’ moon, and by my watch. The
longitude of the fhip was found by my watch, at ten in the morning, to be 1° 1145” W.
The longitude by the lunar obfervations differed near two degrees from one another.
By the mean of them the fhip was in longitude 2° 57’ 45 W. Some Shetland boats
came on board with fifh. At noon the latitude by obfervation was 65° 16° 45”. At
one in the afternoon the dip was obferved to be 73° 30°; and at eight, 75° 18°: the
evening calm, and very fine; the appearance of the {ky to the northward very beautiful.
Variation, by the mean of feveral obfervations, 22° 25’ W.
The fifteenth, by an obfervation at eight in the morning, the longitude of the thip
was by the watch 0° 39° W: dip 74° 52’. At half paft ten in the morning, the longi-
tude, from feveral obfervations of the fun and moon, was 0° 17° W.; at noon, being in
latitude 60° 19’ 8’, by obfervation,. I took the diflance between the two fhips by the
megameter 5. and from that bafe determined the pofition of Hangcliff, which had never
before been afcertained, though it is a very remarkable point, and frequently made by
fhips. According to thefe obfervations it is in latitude 60° 9’, and longitude o° 56’ 30" W.
In the Appendix I fhall give an account of the manner of taking furveys by this in-
ftrument, which I believe never to have been prattifed before. At one, obferved the
dip to be 75°. A thick fog came on in the afternoon, with a flat calm ;_ we could not
fee the Carcafs, but heard her anfwer the fignals for keeping company. Variation,
from the mean of feveral obfervations, 25° 1’ W.
The fixteenth, a very thick fog in the morning; latitude obferved at noon
60° 29’ 17”; the dip was obferved at nine in the evening to be 76° 45°. In the after-
noon, the weather clear, and the wind fair, fteered N. N. E.: fent Captain Lutwidge
his further orders and places of rendezvous.
The feventeeenth, wind fair, and blowing frefh at S.S.W., continued the courfe
N.N.E.: ordered the people a part of the additional clothing : faw an Englith floop,
but had no opportunity of fending letters on board, the fea running high. At ten
in the morning, longitude by the watch 0° 19’ 45’ W: at noon, the latitude obferved
was 62° 59 27”. ‘he fhip had outrun the reckoning eleven miles. 1 tried Bou-
guer’s log twice this day, and found it give more than the common log. Variation
rg? 22’ W.
The eighteenth, little wind all day, but fair, from S.S)W. to SE. : ftill fteering
N. N.E.: latitude obferved at noon 65° 18’ 17”, At three in the afternoon, founded
with three hundred fathom of line, but got no ground,” Longitude by the watch
4°0°30° W. tol
_ The nineteenth, wind» to the N. W. ‘Took the meridian obfervation at midnicht
= ’ ‘ uM . g
for the firft time: the fun’s lower mb 0° 37’ 30” above the horizon; from which
the latitude was found 66° 54/ 39”N.: at four in the afternoon, longitude by the
watch 0° 58’ 45‘ W.: at fix the variation ry° 11‘ W. be
The twentieth, almoft’ calm all day: The water being perfectly fmooth, I took
this opportunity of trying to get foundings at much greater depths than I believe had
ever been attempted before. I founded with a very heavy lead the depth of feven
hundred and eighty fathom, without getting ground ; and’ bya thermometer invented
by lord Charles Cavendifh for this purpofe, found the temperature of thé water at
NOL, I. AA that
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