88 Unification in the measure of time. 



The longitude of Jerusalem was first taken by Niebuhr, 

 then by Seetzen* and Vignes.f Lieutenant Conder, well 

 known for his survey of Palestine, says, in the Encyclopcedia 

 Britannica -^ "The geographical situation of Jerusalem has 

 now been determined by trigonometry to be 31° 46'45"N., 

 and 35° 13' 25" E. long, of Greenwich, taken at the dome 

 of the Holy Sepulchre church." Now, that of the French 

 Connaissance des Temps is 32° 52' 51" E. Paris, which would 

 make 35° 13' y" E. Greenwich. The difference is too great 

 to be overlooked, and it would be important to ascertain 

 whence it comes. 



* See Zach (Baron von) Monatliche Correspondenz XVIII. Gotha, 1808, 

 P- 537- 



t See Connaissance des Temps, 1868. Additions, p. 130. Sur la table 

 des positions geographiques, par M. Darondeau. 



X Encyclopedia Britannica. T. XIII., p. 636. Art. Jerusalem. 



