MEMOIRS 



OF THI 



LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 



Of 



iamfbetttv. 



INVESTIGATION 



OP THE 



CURVE OF QUICKEST DESCENT, 



IN REFERENCE TO MR. EWJLRrS PROBLEM, 



Memoirs, txU. 2nd., New Seties, page 248 : 



IN A LETTER TO MR. DALTON, F. R. S. 



^refiOient of tf)e ^octets. 



By the Rev. EDMUND SIBSON. 



AsJiton, Warrington, Oct. 26th, 1824. 

 Dear Sir, 



You told me, last summer, that you 

 had never received my solution to the followmg 

 problem, proposed by Mr. Ewart, in the Man- 

 chester Memou-s, vol. 2, page 248 : I, therefore, 

 beg leave to send you another solution, wliich I 

 will thank you to propose for insertion, in the 

 Memoirs of the Manchester Society. 



