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'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'

Reference number: RBO/16/12

Date: 1731

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Also 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

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RBO/16/12
Earliest possible date
1731
Page extent
29 pages
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Manuscript

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'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', 1731, RBO/16/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_16_12/a-new-and-exact-table-collected-from-several-observations-taken-from-the-year-1721-to-1729-in-nine-voyages-to-hudsons-bay-north-america-by-captain-c-middleton-showing-variation-of-the-compass-communicated-by-benjamin-robins, accessed on 15 March 2026

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