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WHILE engaged on a meteorological mission in China I availed myself of the opportunity to make the following determinations of the magnetic dip. The observations in Hong Kong were made at the public gardens, the Observatory being not yet ready. On October 10 I observed at the British Consulate; on November 3 at the English Presbyterian Missions Compound, Swatow. In Amoy I observed at the residence of the Commis-missioner I.M. Customs, in Takow (Formosa) at the Custom House, and at the South Cape (Formosa), near the magnificent fortified lighthouse. It is to be feared that the observations on the coast of China are slightly vitiated from local attraction, the rocks consisting of ferruginous granite. Southern Formosa is built up of coral, raised in places to a great height, no doubt through volcanic action. Slight earthquakes are of common occurrence in Formosa, whereas along the coast of China they are rare and of no importance except to the seismologist.
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DOBERCK, W. Magnetic Dip in South China and Formosa. Nature 29, 214 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029214a0
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