A P P E N D I X .
Having thus endeavoured to give a view of the Beagle's principal
measurements of meridian distances, with some of the collateral determinations
which are at present within my reach, I willingly refrain
from their discussion.
It is for those who have access to more extended information, and
who are not personally mterested in the question, by having assisted
in making any of these measures themselves, to discuss and assign
values to them.
For this reason, an intention which I entertained of attempting to
make some enquiry into the grounds on which the longitudes of
Jamaica, the Havannali, Chagres, Panama, &c. are by some persons
considered to be well determined, has been relinquished.
I will conclude by remarldng, that if so small a vessel as the
Beagle, with so few chronometers going well, latterly, could attain,
during a tedious and indirect voyage of five yeeirs, to within thirtythree
seconds of the truth—a much nearer approach to exactness
may be anticipated from measurements made in far less time, with a
greater number of chronometers.
END OF THE APPENDIX.
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