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King George's Sound.]

These being reduced by the survey to, at the entrance of the sound, will place it in

The mean rates of the time keepers, deduced from equal altitudes taken on and between Dec. 15 and Jan. 1, and their errors from mean time at Greenwich, at noon there on the last day of observation, were as under:

The longitude of the tents given by the time keepers on the first day of observation, with the Cape rates, was as follows: The two first, which generally throughout the voyage shewed themselves to be the best time keepers, were on a mean 13′ 56″ to the east of the lunar observations; but by using rates accelerating in