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 0 APPENDIX. d;. ward from it'fOr eight nfiles:'its'westem sldes formed by �ect;IV, the Coronation Islands: its width is three miles, with good . Wtt anchorage all over it.' At -the bottom is CAstzZwxso BAT, where the Mermaid was repaired. The'latitude of the beach in 15 �18", and longitude 125� 4if'*. Port Nelson communicates with the sea' to'the westwar8 of the Coronation Islands, which may be' 'conSidered a strait. At the 8onth-west end of 'the southernmost island, where the sitit is narrowest, and not more than one mile and a quarter � The latitude of, the observatory' was taken ever day daring our stay, usin the sea-horlzon,'but the' effect of refraction was so at that the daily observations varied as much as  4. The mean of 15 meridlonal altitudes with the sextant made the latitude . 15 6' '. aml o fourteen obervatiom with the circle ]5 6 15.8 Mean for the latisude of the observatory 15 6 18South. The ]ongtode* was deduced' b' te mean of the observations of our two visits; 9is., in Oerl 180, and August, 181: the latter were taken at Sight Point, in Prince Reent's River, the difference o the meridiam of the two place, by chronometers and survey, being 8' 5'.8. � 180. Sept.  and 9. By twenty et of lunar dis- taces with the sun cooraining one hundred Rights ith the sextant, the sun being to the east of the moon, the longitude is. . '1821. August nd and 3rd. By seventeen sets of lunar distances with the sun, containin eighty- tlve sights ith the sextant, the sun being to the 'wt of the moon, the longitude of Sht Point, -in Prince ]gent*s River,-was found to be !4' 41' 1"., or of Careening Bay . .1 0 .1 ' �ne mean is the longitude of the observatory

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