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546 PHIPPS’S JOURNAL.
that depth to be 26° of Fahrenheit’s thermometer; the temperature of the air being
48° and a half.
We began this day to make ufe of Doctor Irving’s apparatus for diftilling frefh
water from the fea: repeated trials gave us the moft fatisfatory proof of its utility :
the water produced from it was perfectly free from falt, and wholefome, being uled
for boiling the fhip’s provifions ; which convenience would alone be a defirable object
in all voyages, independent of the benefit of fo ufeful a refource in cafe of diftrefs for
water. ‘The quantity produced every day varied from accidental circumftances, but
was generally from thirty-four to forty gallons, without any great addition of fuel.
‘I’wice indeed the quantity produced was only twenty-three gallons on each diftillation ;
thisamounts to more than a quart for each man, which, though not a plentiful allow-
ance, is much more than what is neceflary for fubfiftence. In cafes of real neceflity I
have noreafon to doubt that a much greater quantity might be produced without an in-
convenient expence of fuel.
The twenty-firft, a frefh gale at S.E. all day; fteered N. N.E. At four in the
morning we {poke with a {now from the feal fithery, bound to Hamburg, by which we
fent fome letters.” At fix in the morning the variation, by the mean of feveral obfer-
vations, was 23° 18’ W. Longitude by the watch at nine was 0° 34’ 30” W. Lati-
tude obferved at noon 68” 5’.
The twenty-fecond, calm moft part of the day; rainy and rather cold in the even-
ing. At noon obferved the dip to be 77° 52’.
The twenty-third, very foggy all day; the wind fair; altered the courfe, and
fteered N. E. and & N.E.,to get more into the mid channel, and to avoid falling in
with the weftern ice, which, from the increafing coldnefs of the weather, we con-
cluded to be near. At feven o’clock in the morning, being by our reckoning to the
northward of 72°, we faw a piece of drift wood, and a {mall bird called a Red-poll. Dip
obferved at nine in the evening to be 81° 30’.
‘The twenty-fourth, very foggy all the morning ; the wind came round to the north-
ward. The dip obferved at noon was 80° 35’. In the afternoon, the air much colder
than we had hitherto felt it; the thermometer at 34°. A fire made in the cabin for
the firft time, in latitude 73° 40’.
The wind northerly, with a great fwell; fome fnow, but in general clear. At
eight in the morning, the longitude obferved by the watch was 7° 15’ E. Made feve-
yal obfervations on the variation, which we found, by thofe taken at feven in morning,
to be 1729’ W.; by others at three in the afternoon, only 7° 47’ W. I could not
account for this very fudden and extraordinary decreafe, as there were feveral different
obfervations taken both in the morning and evening, which agreed perfectly well with
each other, without any apparent caufe which could produce an error affecting all
the obfervations of either fet. At eight in the evening the longitude by the moon
was 12° 57 30” E., which differed 2° 35/ from that by the watch. “Little wind at
night.
‘The twenty-fixth, little wind all day; the weather very fine and moderate. The
latitude obferved at noon was 74° 25’. The thermometer expofed to the fun, which
fhone very bright, rofe from 41° to 61° in twenty minutes. By each of two lunar
obfervations which | took with a fextant of four inches radius, at half paft one, the:
longitude was 9° 7/ 30’ E.; which agreed within thirty-feven minutes with an ob-
fervation made by the watch at half an hour after three, when the longitude was
8° 52’ 30” E.... Dip 79° 22/,
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