94 



At page 6 of Doc. 497, House of Representatives, 23d Congress, 1st 

 Session, Captain Talcott states its position to be: 



Latitude, .... 41° 50' 09" N. 



Longitude west of the meridian of Greenwich, 86° 06' 28". 5 W. 



Or, in Time, .... 5k. 447W. 25s.9 



Our observations place this station 15" in latitude, south, and 38 

 seconds of time, or 9' 30" of arc, in longitude, west of the position 

 assigned to it by Captain Talcott. 



Time Observations at Toledo, Ohio. 



We now adopt Toledo, as our meridian of comparison, for deter- 

 mining the longitudes of places eastward of it. 



By reference to our Station IX., it will be seen that our observing 

 station here was determined to be in : 



Latitude, .... 41° 39' 02".26 N. 



Longitude, .... 5//. 3^??i. 09s.57 VV. 



The time-observations made at this station for comparison with 

 those made at other stations, were as follows, viz. — 



1st. 1859, January I8tk. At Toledo Station, 



Sidereal chronometer No. 2557, fast: 



By 9 observations on u Andromedse, h. m. s. 



west, (at 3/i. 49?n.) - - 1 06 04.99 



By 6 observations on jS Andromedoe, 



also west (at 4/i. 25?w.) - 1 06 04.96 



By 15 observations on 2 West Stars, 



(at 4A. 07m.) - - 1 06 04.98 Ji. m. s. 



h 1 06 04.98 



By 10 observations on ^ Geminorum, east (at 4^-. 



08m.) - - - - -f 1 06 05.78 



J2e5w/^— Chronometer No. 2557, fast of Toledo si- 

 dereal time (at 4A. 07m. 30s.) - + 1 06 05.38 



By comparison — Chronometer No. 141, was slow of 

 mean solar time for this station (at 'Sh. \Qm. mean 

 time) - - . . . — 20 50.63 



