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Letter from the Admiralty re magnetic variations (5 of 7). With copy of Captain Hayes' request for more details and copy of Captain Hurd's letter from the Hydrographer's Office (FLI07) Page 2



you a copy of a minute, dated
the 21st instant, from Captain
Hurd
, the Hydrographer for
this department, wherein he
has quoted certain parts of
your general statement from
which he conceives that an
abstract might, with advan-
-tage, be made for the infor-
-mation of those Officers who,
like Captain Hayes, shall be
desirous to regulate the
experiments and remarks
which they are instructed to
make, by a further knowledge
of the subject than is at
present brought under
their views; and I have to
signify their Lordships'
direction to you to report
to me what additional particulars,
of the deductions already obtained,
you would propose to be circula-


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Hayes, Captain James
Flinders, Matthew
Hurd, (Captain) Thomas.
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Admiralty

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