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completed. I have seen the First and Second parts, which 

 were printed at Petersburgh, in 1786, and 1789. Neither the 

 African nor American languages have any place in these vo- 

 lumes. My own labours have now put me in possession of 

 good specimens of at least one hundred American dialects, and 

 several African ones. These may, at some future period, be 

 offered to the public, as a supplement to the work begun by 

 Catherine and Pallas. 



No. XXIX. 



Astronomical Observations made by Jose Joaquin de Ferrer, chiefly 

 for the Purpose of determining the Geographical Position of vari- 

 ous Places in the United States, and other Parts of North. 

 America. Communicated by the Author. 



Translated from the Spanish, and read at different times. 



GEOGRAPHICAL POSITIONS 

 ON THE ATLANTIC BORDER OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Latitudes. Longitudes 



W. of Greenwich. 



Q I II O I II 



Cape Hatteras + 35 14 30 75 38 15 § 



Cape Henlopen light-house \ 38 47 16 75 10 03 § 



Cape May ■ f 38 56 46 74 56 54 § 



Germantown market-house. . . * 40 02 29 



Coast to the North of Cape-May } 39 39 00 74 16 35 § 



Idem | 39 52 40 74 12 15 § 



Idem •... J 40 07 30 74 12 15 § 



Highlands 74 07 24 § 



Town of New-Haven \ 41 17 07 73 4 53 § 



Town of Gilford • f 41 18 16 72 51 00 § 



(Falcon) Falkland-Island J 41 14 50 72 50 15 § 



New-London, Light-house j 41 21 08 72 12 15 § 



Lighthouse, on the Easternmost point of Long-Island. . f 41 04 30 71 53 39 § 



E. Hampton, in Long-Island f 41 00 00 72 15 50 § 



Rocky Way in Idem + 40 28 00 73 12 55 § 



Battery at New-York * 40 42 06 74 07 45 



f Latitude observed at sea, at some distance from the parallel, and calculated from a course of 



4 or 5 hours from the time of observing. 

 \ Latitude observed at sea, upon which dependence may be placed, and not differing i of a 



minute from the true lat. 

 * Longitude determined by astronomical observations ; by the emersions of the first satellite 



of Jupiter compared with the corresponding ones made in Europe, and by the occultation of 



stars b/ the moon's disk. 

 § Longitude as referred to New-York, by a chronometer of Arnold. 



