That _M. Le Monier_ has not given altogether a true representation of the matter, will appear from hence. On the 16th of February, at noon[27], the Resolution was in latitude 54° 31-1/2ʹ south, which is sufficiently near the parallel of 54° south, to see high land, the northern extremity of which lies to the southward of that parallel; and at that time we were in 6° east of Greenwich, or 23-3/4° east of the island of Ferro: that is, 4-3/4° less than is assigned for our situation by _M. Le Monier_. On the evening of the same day, the ship being in latitude 54° 24ʹ, and longitude 6° 30ʹ, or 24-1/4° east of Ferro, the variation was no more than 12° 7ʹ west, which also is near a degree and a half less then _M. Le Monier_ says it was, when we first arrived in a proper parallel for seeing Cape Circumcision. It is true, the next morning, in latitude 54° 21-1/2ʹ south, longitude 8° 6ʹ east, we had 13° 42ʹ west variation; but this was after we had run more than two degrees within sight of the parallel of 54° south. It is, moreover, highly probable, that both these variations were too great; for, on the 17th, in the evening, latitude 54° 25ʹ south, and longitude 9° 20ʹ east; that is, 1-1/4° more to the eastward, and after we had run 3-1/3° on the parallel we were then on, the variation was no more than 13° 16ʹ west. It is also worthy of remark, that on the 14th, in the evening, latitude 56° 14-1/2ʹ south, and longitude 4° 50ʹ east, which is but 1° 10ʹ to the westward of the point, where the Resolution came first into a proper situation to see land, situated in the parallel of 54° south, the variation observed was no more than 6° 50ʹ west. And we may further add, that on the 1st of March, 1774, the Adventure had no more than 12-3/4° west variation, though she was then considerably both to the northward and eastward of our situation on the 17th of February in the morning, on both which accounts the variation ought to have been greater, instead of a whole degree less. From all these circumstances, there can be little doubt but that the two variations, observed by us on the 16th and 17th of February, were too great; or that the variation, at the point where the Resolution first came sufficiently near the parallel of 54° south, to see land, the northern extremity of which is situated in that parallel, could not be more than 11-1/2° west, instead of 13-1/2°, as _M. le Monier_ has represented it.