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of |---------| r | | | | Time.| | | Time.| | o | | In | In | | In | In | |Gr. Least| m | | Space. | Time. | | Space. | Time. | | Height. | e | |---------|----------|------|---------|---------|------|---------| t | | deg. ' "|H. ' " |Mo Da | deg. ' "| H ' " | Mo Da| | | er. | |---------|----------|------|---------|---------|------|----|----|-------| | | | | | | | | | | |+ 0 3 15|0 0 13,0 | 4 23 |+ 0 3 15|0 0 13,0| 4 23| 84| 63| 30, 0| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 1 29|0 4 5,9 | 9 4 |+ 0 30 54|0 2 3,6| 4 9| 73| 53| 30, 0| | | | | | | | | | | | 1 2 8|0 4 8,5 |11 22 |+ 1 1 57|0 4 7,8| 2 18| 83| 74| 30, 1| | 0 57 10|0 3 48,6 |12 25 |+ 1 1 25|0 4 5,6| 1 3| 79| 73| 30,15| | 0 53 32|0 3 34,1 |13 21 |- 0 2 18|0 0 9,2| 0 24| 85| 69| 30,15| | 1 18 58|0 5 15,8 |15 27 |+ 0 16 40|0 1 6,6| 2 6| 90| 70| 30, 1| | 1 22 28|0 5 29,8 |17 17 |- 0 2 0|0 0 8,0| 1 18| 90| 72| 29, 9| | 1 17 32|0 5 10,1 |18 10 | 0 0 0|0 0 0,0| 0 21| 92| 70| 29, 7| | | | | | | | | | | | 2 15 27|0 9 1,8 |24 2 |+ 0 28 42|0 2 34,8| 5 20| 65| 41| 30, 0| | 4 12 55|0 16 51,6 |30 15 |- 0 18 45|0 1 15,0| 6 13| 57| 36| 20,15| | | | | | | | | | | | 10 7 35|0 40 30,3 |34 14 |- 0 22 38|0 1 30,5| 3 27| 88| 70| 29, 8| | | | | | | | | | | | 14 52 44|0 59 30,9 |37 18 |- 0 36 44|0 2 16,9| 3 4| | | | | | | | | | | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From this view of the time-keeper it appears, that for near two years it altered its rate very inconsiderably, and therefore that its error, according to the Greenwich rate, if we had had no opportunities of correcting it, amounted only to 2-1/4 deg.. That afterward, at King George's Sound, or Nootka, it was found to have varied
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