Compasse

The second day at 3 in the morning we doubled Fowlnesse, and the wind was this day variable at all parts of the Compasse.

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The first of Iune we were vnder 6. degrees, with a Southeast wind, holding our course North West, but by means of the Compasse that yeelded

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This is a strange alteration and very apt to deceiue the Sailer, vnlesse hee know the vnconstancie and variation of the Compasse, and take the eleuation of the pole sometimes with his instruments.

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Compasse doeth varie from the North, sometimes to the West, and sometimes to the East, according as a man is to the Eastward or to the Westward of that Meridian, that passeth by both the poles of the Magnes and the World.

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Compasse, which was three degrees and a halfe from the North to the

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The variation of the Compasse at this place is 4. degrees from the North to the East.

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The variation of the Compasse at that place about 11. degrees from North to West.

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I went on shore at the crosse, and tooke the latitude, which is 66. degrees, 58. minutes, 30. seconds: the variation of the Compasse 3. degrees and a halfe from the North to the East.

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Doe you diligently obserue the latitude as often, and in as many places as you may possible, and also the variation of the Compasse

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Thus when the storme was seazed, we went out of the creeke againe: and hauing set the land with our Compasse, and taken certaine markes of the same, during the time of the tempest, whilest we ridde at our anker, we went directly to the place where we ridde, with our barke againe, and found our anker which we lost: whereat the Tartars much marueiled howe we did it.

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