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RefNoRBO/16/12
AltRefNoRBO.16.53
LevelItem
Title'A new and exact Table collected from Several Observations taken from the Year 1721 to 1729 in nine Voyages to Hudson's Bay, North America by Captain C Middleton showing variation of the compass communicated by Benjamin Robins'
Date1731
DescriptionAlso accounting the longitude from the meridian of London
At page 64 are observations on the weather in a voyage to Hudson's Bay in North America in 1730

Read to the Royal Society on 24 June 1731
LanguageEnglish
Extent29 sides
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialPrinted in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 37, no 418, p 71
CLP/9ii/22
CLP/9ii/24
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