. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. rder to make his attempt todiscover the laws by which the variation of the magnetic needle is 1 Arlington House, on the site if Buckingham Palace, was inherited by the Duchessof Grafton from her father, the Earl of Arlington. 2 He commanded her from August 19th, 1698 to July 20th, 1699; again fromAugust 24th, 1699, to September, 18th, 1700; and, yet again, from April 30th, 1701,to October 16th, 1701. His name appears in an MS. Navy List of 1698 as EdmundHawley—a form which indicates Its —W. L. C. 1698-1701.] DA
. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. rder to make his attempt todiscover the laws by which the variation of the magnetic needle is 1 Arlington House, on the site if Buckingham Palace, was inherited by the Duchessof Grafton from her father, the Earl of Arlington. 2 He commanded her from August 19th, 1698 to July 20th, 1699; again fromAugust 24th, 1699, to September, 18th, 1700; and, yet again, from April 30th, 1701,to October 16th, 1701. His name appears in an MS. Navy List of 1698 as EdmundHawley—a form which indicates Its —W. L. C. 1698-1701.] DAMPIERS VOYAGES. 545 governed, by investigations in the South Atlantic. He sailed inNovember, 1698; but he soon found that the officers resented beingplaced under the orders of a civilian, and were inchned to be insub-ordinate. Halley, therefore, wisely returned to England and gothis officers changed. In September, 1699, he again sailed, crossingthe hue on November 16th. He took many observations forlongitude, and fixed the position of the rock of Trinidad; but. CAPTAIX WILLIAM DAMPIER, {From C. Sherwins engravuig after a portrait former!ij in the British 2Ii:.scum.) his principal work consisted in observations for variation in theSouth Atlantic. Dr. Halley returned to England on September 6th^1700, and in 1701 he published his map of magnetic variations. WiUiam Dampier also received command of a naval expeditionat this time, but it has been seen that he had had a long trainingin another school. The son of a farmer at East Coker in Somerset-shire, young William Dampier was a very observant, intelligent lost both his parents he was sent to sea at the age ofVOL. II. 2 N 546 VOYAGES AND DISCOVERIES, lGGO-1714. [l(;i8. sixteen, in 1668. After his first three voj^ages he came home andfound welcome and rest in his native village. In 1674 he sailedfor the West Indies, and soon afterwards entered upon the hazardousand unhealthy life of a logwood cutter in the Bay of C
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