Latitude deduced from meridian zenith distances of the sun, and of five stars to the S., and five to the N. of the zenith 53° 0' 38" N. Longitude deduced from one hundred and forty-six sets of lunar observations 158 43 16 E. Longitudy by time-keeper, according to its Greenwich rate 173 36 0 Longitude by time-keeper, according to its rate found at Owhyhee 159 20 0 Variation of the compass, by azimuths taken with three compasses, made by Knight, Gregory, and Martin 6 18 40 E. Dip of the North Pole of the magnetic needle, being a mean of the observations taken in June and September 63 5 0
It was high water, on the full and change of the moon, at thirty-six minutes past four, and the greatest rise was five feet eight inches. The tides were very regular every twelve hours. On the coast, near the bay, the flood came from the S., and the time of high water was near two hours sooner than in the harbour of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
[35] See all that is known of this voyage, and a chart of discoveries, in Mr Coxe's Account of Russian-Discoveries between Asia and America. We were not able to learn from the Russians in Kamtschatka, a more perfect account of Synd than we now find is given by Mr Coxe; and yet they seemed disposed to communicate all that they really knew. Major Behm could only inform us, in general, that the expedition had miscarried as to its object, and that the commander had fallen under much blame. It appeared evidently that he had been on the coast of America, to the southward of Cape Prince of Wales, between the latitudes 64° and 65° and it is most probable that his having got too far to the northward to meet with sea-otters, which the Russians, in all their attempts at discoveries, seem to have principally, in view, and his returning without having made any that promised commercial advantages, was the cause of his disgrace, and of the great contempt with which the Russians always spoke of this officer's voyage.
The cluster of islands placed in Synd's chart, between the latitudes of 61° and 65°, is undoubtedly the same with the island called by Beering St Laurence's, and those we named Clerke's, Anderson's, and King's Islands; but their proportionate size, and relative situation, are exceedingly erroneous.