Narrative of the surveying voyages of his majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle (vol.2- Appendix): between the years 1826 and 1836 : describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagles's circumnavigation of the globe

340 APPEXDIX. Keeling Islands to the Mauritius. Fifti en Ch ronometers Twenty- one Days. H. M. s. H. M. s. H. M S. H. M. s. A 2 37 38,96 .. 38,96 2 37 32,54 . 32,54 B 36,30 • ... 36,30 R 37,62 • 37,62 C 35,05 ... 35,05 S 31,94 . 31,94 D 31,87 ... ... 31,87 V 25,55 G 17,34 w 29,81 . 29,81 K 48,06 X 27,70 L 43,18 z 34,42 . 34,42 N 33,17 33,17 Mean •• 33,56 • 34,17 Preferred . 2h. 37m. 34,2s. Places of obsen^ation : Keeling Islands, as before. Mauritius, Battery on Cooper's Island, Port Louis. Mauritius to Simon's Bay. Thirteen Chronometers. Twenty-five Days. H. M. s. H. M. s. M. M. S. H. M. S. A 2 36 25,12 ... 25,12 2 36 23,46 ... ... 23,46 C 18,23 .. ... 18,23 R 21,44 ... ... 21,44 D 28, It) S 18,82 ... ... 18,82 G 32,50 w 17,74 ... ". 17,74 K 24,85 ... 24,85 X 12,44 L 23,62 .. ... 23,62 z 19,68 ... ... 19,68 N 24,93 ... 24,93 Mean . .22,38 ... • •• 21,79 Preferred . 2h. 36m. 21,8s. Places of observation Mauritius, as before. Simon's Bay, south-east end of the Dock Yard, near high water mark. Simon's Bay to the Observatory, by three Chronometers, carried to and from it the same day. Oh. 00m. 10,9s. Observatory east of Simon's Bay.