This can be compensated for by setting the glass dial at a point to the right or left of the compass heading to correspond with the compass error; then the bearing of any object will be the true bearing.
"Lectures in Navigation"
Ernest Gallaudet Draper
Her diminished power amongst the people had been fully compensated by the sincere love and affection she had won from them by acts of charity and devotion.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
How is the waste of land by denudation compensated?
"Geology"
James Geikie