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APPENDIX.
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TABLE X.

Variations of rate and errors in longitude, made by one or both of Earnshaw's time keepers, No. 543 and No. 520, during the circumnavigation of Terra Australia, and from Port Jackson to the island Mauritius.
Departure taken. Rates of time keepers losing. Variations of rate. Errors in long. on arriving. Daily part of
supplemental errors.
Place. Longit. East No. 543 No. 520. Mean. During the passage. Number of days. Daily acceleration. With rate
before found.
With rate
accelerated.
° ″   ″   ″    ″
Port Jackson 151 11 49  8,63 19,52 14,075
Keppel Bay 150 58 20 As at Port Jackson ″    ″      ′  ″  ′  ″  ″
Broad Sound 149 46 53  9,62 21,41 15,515 1,44 27,7 0,052  7 14 E.  2  3,6 E.  4,46 E.
Sweers' I. 139 44 52 21,47 First rate 0,06 51,9 Not used.  2 50,2  3,28
14,74
(The time keepers were let down in this passage, and set going with the difference of time allowed.)
Observ. I. 137  3 14,8 14,93 0,19 16,4 0,0116  0 24,9  0
Connexion I. 136 24 50 Not ascertained. 10,   2 41 16,1
Bustard Isles 136 26 43 As at Observation I.
Caledon Bay 136 35 47,5 16,53 1,60 16,9 0,0947  4 35  0 59,5  3,52
Coepang Bay 123 35 46,2 16,73 33,99 25, 36 0,20 51,3 0,0039  3 22,2  2  3,7  2,41
Goose. I. Bay 123  9 37,6 19,63 34,07 26, 85 1,49 40,2 0,0371 19 52,4 12 11,6 18, 2
Port Jackson 151 11 49 First rates not known 19,9  5 42,5 17, 2
33,38 Latter rate
Wreck Reef 155 18 50,5 34,08 After shipwreck 26,  Not used 14 35,9 W. 33, 7 W.
34,13 Latter rate
Coepang Bay 123 35 46,2 36,74 2,61 36,2 0,0721 12 48 E.  0 40,   1, 1 E.
Port Louis  57 29 57 36,90 0,16 35,  Not used 10 43,5 18, 4

The irregularity of this table, compared with Table VII. of the Appendix to Vol. I., arises from its having been sometimes found advisable to make use of one time keeper in preference to both,—from some stations being fixed by the survey where no rates are found,—and latterly from No. 543 having stopped. In other respects, the explanation which follows the former table will generally apply here.