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

348 APPENDIX. Beagle's Chain of Meridian Distances and Resulting Longitudes in the Atlantic Ocean. 1831—1836. Monte Video to Port Desire Port Desire to Port Famine ... Port Famine to Port Louis ... Port Louis to Cape Horn Baiiia to Ascension ... Ascension to St. Helena St. Helena to Simon's Bay Simon's Bay to the Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope H. jr. s. H. M. &. o 38 48,0 4 23 40,8 o 20 10,7 4 43 51,5 51 Q2,0 3 52 29,5 36 35,2 4 29 04,7 1 36 26,7 57 37,1 O 34 45,7 22 51,4 1 36 33,3 1 13 41,9 oo 10.9 1 13 52,8 Other Determinations. Beagle in 1829 — Monte Video to Port Desire Beagle in 1830 — Port Desire to Monte Video ... Adventure (tender)— Port Desire to Port Louis Adventure (tender) — Port Louis to Port Famine And, therefore. Port Desire to Port Famine Captain King's published result of all the measures made be- tween 18-26 and 1830 places Port Famine west of Monte Video The present result, as above stated, is ... Beagle in 1830 — Cape Horn to Port Desire, by three short steps with intervening rates Which would place Cape Horn in longitude ... Beagle in 1832 — Direct from Monte Video, made Captain Foster's meridian distance from Monte Video to St. Martin Cove, reduced to Cape Horn, and used with the Beagle's longitude of Monte Video, gives the longitude ... Coquille, M. Duperrey— St. Helena to Ascension Captain Foster — St. Helena to Ascension Captain Foster — St. Helena to the Cape Observatory ' ... Nautical Almanac — St. Helena to the Cape Observatory Mr. Fallows, 1828 — Cape Observatory Mr. Henderson, 1832 — Cape Observatory Mr. Maclear, 1836— Cape Observatory When the Beagle went to Rio de Janeiro in 1826, she made the longitude 2h. 52m. 36s. She stopped at Port Praya, for rates, by the way. Captain Stokes made the longitude of Rio de Janeiro nearly the same by lunars. Malaspina and Espinosa made the longitude of Monte Video ( Rat Island) neai-ly ,3h. 44m. 585. Captain Stokes made it 3h. 44m. 56s. 38 47,7 38 45,9 31 u,o 51 21,9 20 10,9 58 58,1 58 58,7 05 23,7 4 29 04,5 4 29 08 4 29 04 34 46,8 34 48,3 36 45,7 36 45,0 13 53,2 13 55.6 13 56,o