I shall conclude this account of Dusky Bay with some observations made and communicated to me by Mr. Wales. He found, by a great variety of observations, that the latitude of his observatory at Pickersgill Harbour, was 45° 47ʹ 26-1/2ʺ south; and by the mean of several distances of the moon from the sun, that its longitude was 166° 18ʹ east; which is about half a degree less than it is laid down in my chart constructed in my former voyage. He found the variation of the needle or compass by the mean of three different needles, to be 13° 49ʹ east, and the dip of the south end 70° 5-3/4ʹ. The times of high water on the full and change days, he found to be at 10^h 57ʹ, and the tide to rise and fall at the former eight feet, at the latter five feet eight inches. This difference in the rise of the tides between the new and full moon is a little extraordinary, and was probably occasioned, at this time, by some accidental cause, such as winds, &c. but be it as it will, I am well assured there was no error in the observations. Supposing the longitude of the observatory to be as above, the error of Mr. Kendal’s watch, in longitude, will be 1° 48ʹ, minus, and that of Mr. Arnold’s 39° 25ʺ. The former was found to be gaining 6ʺ, 461 a-day, on mean time, and the latter losing 99ʺ, 361. Agreeably to these rates, the longitude by them was not to be determined until an opportunity of trying them again. I must observe, that in finding the longitude by Mr. Kendal’s watch, we supposed it to have gone mean time from the Cape of Good Hope. Had its Cape rate been allowed, the error would not have been so great. CHAP. VI. PASSAGE FROM DUSKY BAY TO QUEEN CHARLOTTE’S SOUND, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF SOME WATER-SPOUTS, AND OF OUR JOINING THE ADVENTURE.