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On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Jim  wrote:
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>  Quoted from the preface to Matthew Flinders journal.
>    "A cosiderable delay hence arose,and it was prolonged by the
>  Greenwich observations  being  found to differ so much from the
>  calculated  places of the sun and moon,given in the  Nautical
>  Almanacks of 1801,2 and 3,as to make considerable alterations  in the
>  longitudes of places  settled during the voyage; and a reconstruction
>  of all the charts becoming  thence  indespensable to accuracy".
>                   Jim Martin.

Was that caused by the mix-up with leap year, that Nathaniel Bowditch
made such a big deal about?
Even though 1800 is divisible by four, it wasn't a leap year.
    -- Bill N

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