i78°- The following nautical obfervations were made while we
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Harbour o f Macao, - Lat. 22° 12' o" North.
Long. 113° 47' o" Eaft.
Anchoring-place in the Typa. Lat. 22” g' 30" North.
Long. 1 130 48' 34" Eaft.
Mean dip o f the North pole o f 1 „
tuh e magneti• c needj ,l e - Jf 21 1 0
Variation o f the compafs - - 0° 19' o" Weft.
On the fu ll and change days it was h ig h water in the
Typa at 5" 15”, and in Macao harbour at 5" 50“ . T h e greateft
rife was fix feet one inch. T he flood appeared to come
from the South Eaftward; but we could not determine
this point with certainty, on account o f the great number
o f iflands which lie o ff the mouth o f the river o f Canton.
Prices of Provifons at Canton, 1780.
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Ananas - 0 4 0 a fcore.
Arrack - 0 0 8 per bottle.
Butter 0 s 4 t per catty *,
Beef, Canton 0 0 .24
Ditto, Macao 0 0 5 i
Birds-nefts ‘ 3 8
Bifcuit 0 0 4
Beache de Mar 0 2 °T
C a lf 1 9 t each.
Caravances, dried - 0 ¡y3:i 2t per catty.
* A-catty is 18 oz.— a pecul 100 catty.
Cabbage,
T H E P A C I F I C 0 C E A N.
£• s. d.
Cabbage, Nankeen 0 0 44 per catty.
Curry flu ff 0 1 4
Coffee - •> * 0 1 4
Cocoa-nuts 0 0 4 each.
Charcoal - 0 3 4 per pecul.
Coxice - - - - 0 1 4 per catty.
Canton nuts 0 0 4
Chefnuts - 0 0 « 4
Cockles - © 0 3 r
Ducks If - 0 0 St
Ditto, wild - - - 0 1 each.
Deers finews * * 0 2 l i per catty.
Eels - - * 0 0 6t
E g g s - - 0 2 0 per hundred.
JFilh, common 0 0 3t per catty.
Ditto, beil - - 0 0 6X
Ditto falted, Nankeen, - - 0 0 9t
Fruit - 0 0
Ditto, Nankeen 0 2 0
Frogs - 0 0
Flour - - 0 0 1 T7F *T
Fowls, capons, 0 0 7 T
Fifli maws 0 2 l i
Geefe - , - 0 0 6 4
Greens - - 0 0
Grafs - - 0 0 2 r per bundle.
Grapes - 0 1 ■of per catty.
Ham - 0 1 P
Hartihorn - - 0 1 4
Hogilard - 0 0 7 t
Hog, alive 0 0 4t
1780.
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