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LONGITUDE OF CHAGRES. 



Longitude of Chagres, New Grenada. 



Longitude of Chagres (house of Don Luis Paredes) West from New York, as obtained by the Transportation 

 of Chronometers in the Steamship Northerner, leaving New York March \st, and arriving at Chagres 

 March 13th, 1849. 



Observer at Chagres, Major W. H. Emory. 



Longitude of Chagres West of New York 24" 05'-.41 



" Columbia College West of Greenwich 4'' 56™ 00"- taken from the Conn, des Temps of 1849. 



Chagres « " 5" 20"- 05'-.41=80° 01' 21".15 



Latitude of Chagres as determined by Espinar (Boco del Foro), 9° 20' 



