cbmmon people were intitled to our good opinion and refpeft, as they
uniformly fubfcribed to the exemplary conduft o f their fuperiors, by a
behaviour that was very orderly and obliging.
T o the reverence, efteem, and regard, that was Ihewn Sen’’ Quadra
by all perfons and on all occafions, I mull attribute fome portion of the
refpeQ. and friendlhip we received; and confider the general difpofition
in our favor to have acquired no little energy, by the noble example of
that diftinguilhed charafter.
Captain King, when fpeaking in his pleafing language o f our benevolent
friend Major Behm, at Kamfchatka, pourtrays with juftice the
charafter of Sen'- Quadra, whofe general conduft feems to have been
aftuated by the fame motives of benevolence, and governed by principles
of fimilar magnanimity.
The parting from a fociety for which we had jufrly conceived a veiy
fincere regard, could not take place without fenfations of much regret.
My concern on this occafion was increafed by my powers of admiriif-
tering to their comfort by a fupply of the necelfary utenfils which they
needed, being fo much limited. Such articles however as I could poffibly
fpare, or make fhift without, I configned to their ufe, and having fe-
lefted an affortment o f the moil necelfary kind, I had the fatisfaftion
to underhand that they were highly valued and thankfully received.
The following are the refults o f fuch obfervations as were made foT
afeertaining the fituation o f the obfervatory on Ihore at Monterrey.
Whence it appeared that Mr. Kendall's chronometer on the 28th of
november, allowing the Nootka rate, lhewed the longihide
to be - 238" 36' >5"
Mr. Earnlhaw’s pocket watch ditto 238 27
Mr. Arnold’s ditto ditto (No. 82) 238 30 !5
Ditto ditto ditto (No. 14) 238 9 45
Ditto ditto ditto (No. 1 y;6) - 238 30
Longitude
Longitude of the obfervatory at'Monterrey by lunar obfervations >79=- _ ■■+■■■ s , December.
taken tnere.; « - — j
:. 5, Myfelf, eight fet;s of diftances, moon and fun., 238° 17' 25'
— Mr. Whidbey, eight ditto ditto- 238 33 20
7, ditto, feventeen ditto. ■ .ditto 2.38 42 52
— Myfelf, twelve ditto ditto 238 3° 54
8, | ditto, twelve. ditto ditto 238 29 40
— Mr. Whidbey, twelve ditto. ditto 238 45 29
— ditto, - three. ditto, moon and regulus. ; , «37 54 25
— Myfelf, three ditto ditto 238 11 10
g, ditto, four ditto, moon and fun 238 31 26
— Mr. Whidbey, twelve ditto ditto 238 42
xo, ditto, twelve ditto ditto 238 4,0 54
— Myfelf, eight .ditto ditto 238 32 9
18, ditto, fixteen ditto ditto 238 19 5°
— Mr. Whidbey, fixteen ditto ditto 238 8 14
19, ditto, two ditto ditto 238 23 37
■— Myfelf, two ditto ditto. - 238 31 45
20, ditto, fixteen ditto ditto 238 10 45.
— Mr. Whidbey, fixteen ditto ditto 238 8 32
21, ditto, eight ditto ditto 238 16 16
— Myfelf, eight ditto ditto 238 13 56
— Mr. Whidbey, four ditto, moon and aldeberan, 238 52 5S
The mean o f the whole, colleShvely taken, being one
hundred and ten fets by Mr. Whidbey, and eighty-nine
by myfelf, amounting in all to one hundred and ninetynine
fets o f lunar diftances: each fet as ufual containing-0->
fix obfervations; lhewed the longitude to be - 238 25 45
The longitude of Monterrey, deduced from the above authority, was
found to differ 10' 30" from that Ihewn by Mr. Kendall’s chronometer
on our arrival. On the belief that this difference arofe from an error in
the chronometer, commencing from the change o f climate about the
time we paffed cape Mendocino, it has been allowed and corrected,
V ol. II, H both