same Anchorage. I should
wish also to know whether both
these Ships holds were stowed
with water & Provisions
at the time the Experiments
were made, and if the Iron
ballast in both Ships was
covered with Shingle in the
usual way. ———
                    I have &c,
                    Jm^s Hayes

[Captain Hurd's letter]

Copy
          Hydrographer's Office 21^st Nov, 1812

    It does not appear that Cap^t Flinders
gives any decided opinion on the
Subject of Magnetism in Ships,
but only offers reasons, and
States what he calls well ascertained
facts, for the purpose of being
printed & thereby made public,
in hopes of obtaining some
information on which a substantial
opinion may be grounded, and the
great error in compaƒses either
rectified or allowed for. —
    If in addition to the printed
Extracts already distributed by their
Lordships orders from Cap^t Flinders
account of Experiments, a further