			° ' "
1	E	Co-tangent of	1.35.35	for 43671	read 42671
2	M	Co-tangent of	4. 4.49	— 66976	—— 66979
3		Sine of	4.23.38	— 43107	—— 43007
4		Sine of	4.23.39	— 43381	—— 43281
5	S	Sine of	6.45.52	— 10001	—— 11001
6	Kk	Co-sine of	14.18. 3	— 3398	—— 3298
7	Ss	Tangent of	18. 1.56	— 5064	—— 6064
8	Aaa	Co-tangent of	21.11.14	— 6062	—— 5962
9	Ggg	Tangent of	23.48.19	— 6087	—— 5987
10		Co-tangent of	23.48.19	— 3913	—— 4013
11	Iii	Sine of	25. 5. 4	— 3173	—— 3183
12		Sine of	25. 5. 5	— 3218	—— 3228
13		Sine of	25. 5. 6	— 3263	—— 3273
14		Sine of	25. 5. 7	— 3308	—— 3318
15		Sine of	25. 5. 8	— 3353	—— 3363
16		Sine of	25. 5. 9	— 3398	—— 3408
17	Qqq	Tangent of	28.19.39	— 6302	—— 6402
18	4H	Tangent of	35.55.51	— 1681	—— 1581
19	4K	Co-sine of	37.29. 2	— 5503	—— 5603

An error being detected in this list of ERRATA, we find, in the Nautical Almanac for the year 1833, the following ERRATUM of the ERRATA of Taylor's Logarithms:—

'In the list of ERRATA detected in Taylor's Logarithms, for cos. 4° 18' 3", read cos. 14° 18' 2".'

Here, however, confusion is worse confounded; for a new error, not before existing, and of much greater magnitude, is introduced! It will be necessary, in the Nautical Almanac for 1836, (that for 1835 is already published,) to introduce the following:

ERRATUM of the ERRATUM of the ERRATA of TAYLOR's Logarithms. For cos. 4° 18' 3", read cos. 14° 18' 3".

If proof were wanted to establish incontrovertibly the utter impracticability of precluding numerical errors in works of this nature, we should find it in this succession of error upon error, produced, in spite of the universally acknowledged accuracy and assiduity of the persons at present employed in the construction and management of the Nautical Almanac. It is only by the mechanical fabrication of tables that such errors can be rendered impossible.

On examining this list with attention, we have been particularly struck with the circumstances in which these errors appear to have originated. It is a remarkable fact, that of