A fresh breeze at
North West directly ahead, as the whole Fleet went about at 2 this morning and
made in for the land. Latitude this day at 12 o'clock 38° 50", the weather
cool and pleasant. Eight miles to the South of Cape May—this day. Sounded at 12
o'clock in 19 Fathoms. Remark—I have throughout, in the observations of the
daily latitude diminished 3 minutes, being equal to the difference between this
and Greenwich in England, where the declinations were calculated.
SOURCE: G. D. Scull,
Editor, The Montresor Journals, p. 430
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