By morning no more than a faint air was blowing from the eastward, and, unable to make appreciable southing by it, Captain Davenport hauled up full-and-by on the port track.
A current was setting to the westward, she made westing whether she made southing or not.
I was seven days southingto Mamohela, Katomba's camp, and quite knocked up and exhausted.
We were obliged to stand a long way to the westward, and went to the northward of Juan Fernandez above a degree, before we had a wind that we could make any southing with.
With a southingwind blowing stiff from the icy Antarctic wastes, they "put it to her!
August, the officers and men being quite knocked up, and having made by our account only two miles of southing over a road not less than five in length.
By the Observed Latitude at Noon I find the Ship hath only made 22 Miles Southing since the last Observation two days ago, whereas the Log gives 55 Miles, a Proof that there is a Current setting to the Northward.
Our desire was to make easting as well as southing so as to reach the land, if possible, east of Ross's farthest South and well east of Coats' Land.
We managed to make a little southing during the next day, but noon found us 108 miles from the island.
The general direction of the currents encountered was unfavourable, the prevailing one, which had a northeasterly set of about ten miles a day, having apparently hooked up with the contrary winds to cut down our southing and westing.
Are not the periods of those diurnal diseases more obstinate, that commence many hours before the southing or northing of the moon, than of those which commence at those times?
Do not the cold periods of lunar diseases commence a few hours before the southing of the moon during the vernal and summer months, and before the northing of the moon during the autumnal and winter months?
It is so bright that, viewed through that tube, it must have been visible to the naked eye, even when southing in full daylight.
For if the passage had only given the meridian plane, but without permitting the astronomer to observe the southing of any fixed star, it would have subserved only one-half its purposes as a meridional instrument.
The grand gallery could be used for the observation of any celestial body southing higher than 26° 18' above the horizon; but not very effectively for objects passing near the zenith.
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