June * would be very defirable; for which purpofe I determined to remain a day
I---- ,---- 1 longer. The magazine alfo, being yet damp, would be benefitted by further
airing with fires. The powder which had been all aired, and found
in better condition than was expefted, remained on fhore until the next
Monday 10. morning, when the weather being rainy and unpleafant, without the
leaft profpeft o f any alteration, the obfervatory with every thing elfe
was taken from the fhore; and in the afternoon we weighed and towed
out o f the cove, which I diftinguilhed by the name of R e s t o r a t i o n
C o v e , having there paflèd and celebrated the anniverfary o f that happy
event.
During my abfence föme excellent fpruce was brewed from the pine
trees found here, and a fufficient fupply of Inh for thé ufe of all hands
was every day procured. The gentlemen on board did not long remain
without being vifited by the natives, who feemed to be o f three different
tribes, each having diftinfl chiefs, named Keyut, Comockjhulah, and
Whacojh \ they feemed all on very frieqdly and amicable terms with each
other, and conduftéd themfelves with the greateft good order on board.
Their language it feems much refembled that, of the people on Queen
Charlotte’s iflands, through which feme on board were able to make themfelves
underftood. From Whacojh they had learned, that he had fallen in
with our boats at fome diftance; this had been really the cafe, as he was
one of thofe who had vifited me from the large village on the detached
rock. They brought for barter the fkins-of the fea otter and other animals,
fome of which were purchafed with copper and iron.
This uninteréfting region afforded nothing further worthy o f notice,
excepting the foundings, the dimenfions of the cove, and the very few
aftronomical and nautical obfervations, that, under the unfavorable
circumflances o f the weather, could be procured.
The breadth of the cove at the .entrance, in a north and fouth direflion,
is about a mile and a quarter, and its depth, from the center o f the entrance
in a north-eaft direction, is three quarters of a mile. The foundings,
though deep are regular, from 60 fathoms at the entrance, to 5
and 10 fathoms clofe to the fhore. The land on the oppofite fide of the
arm is about two miles and a half diflant.
The
The aftronomical obfervations made at this ftation were,
Fourteen lets o f lunar diftances taken by Mr. Whidbey
on the gd and 5th of june, gave a mean refult o f 232“ 8'45"
Fourteen fets taken by Mr. Orchard, ditto - 232 1551
The mean o f twenty-eight fets as above, - 232 12 18
The latitude by fix meridional altitudes o f the fun; 52 o 58
By fingle altitudes on the g i f t o f may, Kendall’s- chronometer
lhewed the longitude to be by the Karakakooa
rate. - - - - 230 11 15
Arnold’s No. 14, by the fame rate . - -. 230 35
Ditto, No. 1/6, ditto - - - 233 2 45
Ditto, No. 82, on board the Chatham, ditto 234 5 45
Having correfponding altitudes on the 3d and 5 th of
june, that interval was confidered too Ihort; a fingle
altitude taken on the yth, and another on the lath,
were therefore made ufe of, for afcertaining the rates
o f the chronometers. From this authority, and confi-
dering the longitude o f this place as fixed by our laft
year’s obfervations in 232“ 20' to be correft, it appeared
that Kendall’s chronometer was fall of mean time at
Greenwich on the 10th of june, at noon, 2h 8' 15" 46'
And gaining per day at the rate of, - 23. 15
Arnold’s No. 14, fall of mean time at Greenwich, | 1 57 29 46
And gaining per day at the rate of, - 20 32
Arnold’s No. 176, ditto, ditto 4 5° 46
And gaining per day at the rate of, 42 58
Arnold’s No. 82, ditto, ditto 6 4 !9 46
And gaining per day at the rate of, 29 41
But, as I confidered this authority infufficient for eftablilhing the fe-
veral rates of the inftruments, the longitude o f the ;different ftations
hereafter mentioned will be deduced from fuch obfervations as we were
able to obtain, when an opportunity offered for getting the obfervatory
again on fhore.
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