256 Aw EASY METHOD or FinpIneG THE 
Pi WAd 1B flay tBe 
Time, Star paffes Meridian 
nearly at 
April 2 Noon 
19 11 A.M 
May 5 10 
20 9 
June 4 8 
18 7 
July 3.) 6 
7. 3, 
Auguft 2 4 
ad, 3 
September 3 2 
I I 
9 
October 6 Midnight 
22 rr P.M. 
November 6 10 
21 9 
December 5 8 
TO 7 
‘ January I 6 
15 5 
29 4 
February 13 3 
March nok 2 
17 I 
ExamptLel. 
Suppofe on the 12th of September 1785, at 8 o’clock 
in the evening, in the latitude of 40° N. the magnetic 
azimuth of the pole-ftar had been obferved to be 0° 38! 
eafterly ; required the variation of the needle at the time 
and place of obfervation. ‘ 
Star’s 
