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1858, July 6th. At Milwavhee Station No. 3. 



" o I n 



By 17 altitudes of ^ Urscu Minoris (Polaris) north, 43 02 39.12 



By 26 circum-meridian altitudes oft* Aquilse (Altair) 



south, - - . - - 43 02 45.77 



Result — Latitude of this station. 

 Reduction to the steeple of the Roman Catholic 

 Church on Jackson street. 



43 02 42.45 



— 8.8 



Latitude of this steeple by this night's observations, 43 02 33.65 

 Do. by the observations of July 1st, above given, 43 02 33.79 



Result adopted — Latitude of the steeple of the Ro- 

 man Catholic Church on Jackson street, Milwau- 

 kee, by a mean of both nights' observations, 



Longitude of the same, west of the meridian of Green- 

 wich, as before given, 5h. 51m. 375.5 = 



43 02 33.7 



87 54 22.5 



From these two last expressed results, combined with our harbour 

 survey, we present the following table of positions in the city of Mil- 

 waukee. 



The American Almanac for the present year (1858) gives the po- 

 sition of Milwaukee, as follows, viz. 



Latitude, 



Longitude, west Creenwich, 



43° 03' 45" N. 



87° 57' 00" 



which, if our determination be correct, is an error in the assigned 

 geographical position of this place, of two and (ifty-five hundredths 

 miles (2..55 miles) on an azimuthal course of N. 58° 06' 19" VV. 

 from the true positioii. 



