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that we may go back at least 28 centuries, let us therefore add 28 
times 47''-6 to the present declination of the Sun. The sum will 
be as follows :— 


Log. cosi. Lat. ... age BP?-21" <0" 2) Rad. =) 7971503 
Declination N. 1897 ey ae i 
Refraction ... ear 31’ 22” 
2,800 years at 47”°6 per century 22' 13” 
Log. Sine <a ... 24° 20! 44” =9°6151489 
Log. S. Amplitude B.c. 890=41° 7’ 16” =9°8179988. 
Another fact which goes to confirm our belief that this angle 
41° 7’ 16” was the angle that the alignment from the Hele stone 
to the Southern upright of the great trilithon No. 55 bore from 
the East, is that the so-called Altar stone is so placed that it 
cuts the East and West line at that angle, and pointed duly to 
sunrise at the shortest and sunset at the longest days. Perhaps 
it was so placed in order that, when other officers were seated om 
that stone, observers seated in front of uprights Nos. 53 and 
58 respectively, might have a clear view of the sunset at the 
longest day, and of sunrise at the shortest day, looking past the 
Altar stone, in the latter case in front of it, in the former, behind,. 
and this stone is so deeply and firmly imbedded in the earth that 
there can be no doubt it was originally placed exactly where and 
as it now lies. 
THE ALTITUDES OF THE SELECTED STARS, 
And now I will just recur to the altitudes of the four stars. 
at sunrise at the Equinoxes B.c. 783. 
Zenith Dist. Above Horizon 
a Hydre 52° 44’ 54” 37° 15’ 6” 
e Urs Majoris 57° 37° 45" 32° 22’ 15” 
a Cephei 76° 24’ 8” 13° 35’ 52” 
a Andromedz 56° 21’ 19” 33° 38 41” 
