[With
India Fleet, Homeward Bound]
3rd. A Gentle Trade Wind, and Pleasant weather. Wind North-East; course
North 44 degrees West; distance 85 miles; latitude 22 degrees 21 minutes
North, longitude 39 degrees 9 minutes West.
4th. Ditto weather. In the A.M. found the Variation to be 4 degrees
30 minutes West. Wind North-East; course North 34 degrees West; distance
91 miles; latitude 23 degrees 40 North, longitude 40 degrees 4 minutes
West.
5th. Gentle breezes, with some Showers of Small Rain. Wind Ditto;
course North 52 degrees West; distance 83 miles; latitude 24 degrees
31 minutes North, longitude 41 degrees 11 minutes West.
6th. Ditto weather. In the A.M. found the Variation by the mean of
the Amplitude and Azimuth to be 5 degrees 34 minutes West, and by Observation
of the Sun and Moon found the Ship in Longitude 43 degrees 18 minutes
West of Greenwich, 2 degrees 51 minutes West of the Log since the last
Observations; this I judge to be owing to a Westerly Current. Wind East-North-East
to East; course North 3/4 West; distance 90 miles; latitude
26 degrees 1 minute North, longitude, per Observation Sun and Moon,
43 degrees 18 minutes West.
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