Matthew Flinders

“ 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. ”

“ The first observations on the East Coast were taken at Port Jackson, and the results would naturally form the first table of this Appendix; but these observations being so intimately connected with those on the South Coast that the time keepers could not receive their final corrections without them, the Port-Jackson table became an indispensable conclusion to the former series; and it is thought unnecessary to repeat it in this place.
TABLE I. (Reference from page 31.)
Longitude of the Anchorage in Keppel Bay.
Appt. Greenwich time of the observations. Place. Longit. E. from Naut. Alm. ”

“ Longit. from ☉ E. ☾, uncor. 150 13 16,2 Corrected 149 51 28,8 Longit. from ☉ W. ☾, uncor. 149 49 9,8 149 42 17,1 Means of fifty sets, of lunar distances. uncor. 150 1 13, Corrected 149 46 53, and taken
TABLE III. (Reference from page 148.) ”