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money beginning to growsiiort with our whole society, 

 both Sp-^niards and French, it was thought necessary 

 to make use of the interval while the proper places for 

 erecting the signals were determining, to procure 

 supplies. Accordingly, M. Godin and Do^ George 

 Juan a ;ain set out from Riobamba for Quito on the 

 7th of November ; but it was the 2d of February fol- 

 lowing befare we had the pleasure of congratulating 

 them. on their return, the former having been seized 

 with a fever, which brought him very low, and detain- 

 ed them a considerable time at Quito. 



XVI. XVtI. Signals on Amula and Sisa-pongo. 



The observations necessary at the signal of Amula 

 were finished before the journey to Quito j and trorn 

 the 2d of February 1739, when they returned to Rio- 

 bamba, tiil the 19th, they were employed in those re- 

 lating to Sisaypongo. 



XVIir. Signal on the mountain of Sesgum. 



On the mountain of Sesirum thev had occasion to 

 gtayonly from the 20th to the zj.d of February. For 

 this signal stuod on the declivity of a mountain,' and 

 they vigilantly employedevery moment when the other 

 deserts were free from those clouds in which they are 

 usually involved. 



XÍX. Signal. on the desert of Senegualap, 



The observations at the signal of Senegualap de- 

 tained them from the 23d of February to the 13th 

 of rviarch. The length of the time was indeed the 

 most disagreeable part, as otherwise they did not place 

 this among die worst stations they had met with during 

 iheir course of observations, 



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