3. It is also probable, that the long transport of this drug by sea is detrimental to it, from the humidity which it must necessarily contract during so long a voyage.
TABLE of LONGITUDE and LATITUDE.
Table of Longitude and Latitude.
For the convenience of the Reader, the following Table exhibits in one point of view the longitude and latitude of the principal places mentioned in this performance. Their longitudes are estimated from the first meridian of the Isle of Fero, and from that of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. The longitude of Greenwich from Fero is computed at 17° 34´ 45´´. The longitude of the places marked * has been taken from astronomical observations.
| Latitude. | Longitude. | ||||||||
| Fero. | Greenwich. | ||||||||
| D. | M. | S. | D. | M. | S. | D. | M. | ||
| * Petersburg | 59 | 56 | 23 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 25[190] | |
| * Moscow | 55 | 45 | 45 | 55 | 6 | 30 | 37 | 31 | |
| * Archangel | 64 | 33 | 24 | 56 | 15 | 0 | 38 | 40 | |
| * Tobolsk | 58 | 12 | 22 | 85 | 40 | 0 | 68 | 26 | |
| * Tomsk | 56 | 30 | 0 | 102 | 50 | 0 | 85 | 15 | |
| * Irkutsk | 52 | 18 | 15 | 122 | 13 | 0 | 104 | 38 | |
| * Selenginsk | 51 | 6 | 0 | 124 | 18 | 30 | 106 | 44 | |
| Kiachta | 35 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 18 | 0 | 106 | 43 | |
| * Yakutsk | 62 | 1 | 50 | 147 | 0 | 0 | 129 | 25 | |
| * Ochotsk | 59 | 22 | 0 | 160 | 7 | 0 | 142 | 32 | |
| * Bolcheresk | 52 | 55 | 0 | 174 | 13 | 0 | 156 | 38 | |
| * Port of St. Peter and Paul | 53 | 1 | 0 | 176 | 10 | 0 | 158 | 36 | |
| Eastern Extremity of Siberia | 66 | 0 | 0 | 200 | 0 | 0 | 182 | 25 | |
| Unalashka { | According to the general map of Russia | 58 | 0 | 0 | 223 | 0 | 0 | 205 | 25 |
| According to the chart of Krenitzin & Levashoff | 53 | 30 | 0 | 205 | 30 | 0 | 187 | 55 | |
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The title of the book is, Neue Nachrichten von denen Neuendeckten Insuln in der See zwischen Asia und Amerika aus mitgetheilten Urkunden und Auszuegen versasset von J. L. S.