the unknown World that lies in the mid-way between Chili and New-Zealand , and between Hounds-Island and Peru .
Eighthly, That in Sailing North-West from St. Helena by Ascension, as far as the Equator, the Variation continues very small East, and as it were constantly the same: So that in this part of the World the Course, wherein there is no Variation, is evidently no Meridian, but rather North-West.
Ninthly, That the Entrance of Hudson's Straights, and the Mouth of the River of Plate, being nearly under the same Meridian, at the
one place the Needle varies 29½ Degrees to the West; at the other 20½ Degrees to the East. This plainly demonstrates the impossibility of reconciling these Variations by the Theory of Bond; which is by two Magnetical Poles and an Axis, inclin'd to the Axis of the Earth; from whence it would follow, That under the same Meridian the Variation should be in all places the same way.
These things