Note 195 — Chapter L · FIRST ANTARCTIC VOYAGE OF SIR JAMES ROSS
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On January 31st there was “an unaccountable decrease of variation from 96° E. to 77° E., and then an increase of 16°. Ross formed the opinion that they had passed one of those extraordinary magnetic points first observed during Sir Edward Parry’s second voyage, near the eastern entrance of Hecla and Fury Strait.” Sir James Ross, Voyage to the Southern Seas, 1, 229.