Note 446 — Chapter II · (continued 3)
Reading edition
Historical Mag., 2d ser. vol. ix. 17; N. H. Prov. Papers, vi. 349. Cf. Belknap’s New Hampshire, iii. 349; and Farmer’s ed. of same, p. 245. Douglass (Summary, i. 261) points out how inexact knowledge about the variation of the needle complicated the matter of running lines afresh upon old records. Cf. also Ibid., p. 263.