144 LONGITUDE AND TIME-RECKONING. 
1752—the year when popular prejudice was met and the calendar 
reformed. 
The following table will show all the change that would be calle} 
for in notating the degrees of longitude. It will be observed that 
the table is limited to the twenty-four lettered meridians elsewhere 
alluded to: 
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LONGITUDE. 
Hour ee! 
MERIDIAN. New Style. Old Style. 
Prime Meridian Zero 180° E. & W. of Greenwich 
A 15° 165° E. of Greenwich. 
B 30° 150° E. ae 
Cc 45° 135° E. aC 
D 60° 120° E. G 
E on 105° E. oe 
F 90° 90° E. ae 
G 105° 75° E. ce 
H 120° 60° E. es 
1 135° 45° BE. «¢ 
K 150° 30° E. ee 
it 165° 15° E. ae 
M 180° 0° Greenwich 
N 195° 15° W. of Greenwich. 
ra) 210° 30° W. ee 
P De pds? 45° W. es 
Q 240° 60° W. a 
R 255° 75° W. ac 
Ss 270° 90° W. cs 
4b 285° 105° W. cs 
U 300° 120° W. 4 
Vv 315° 135° W. ee 
Ww 330° 150° W. = 
3/4 345° 165° W. ce 
Prime Meridian 360 or Zero 180° W. = 
But a proposal of this character cannot be effected without much 
discussion. Such a change must be the work of time, for it is to be 
feared that much passive if not active opposition would have to be 
overcome before general concurrence be obtained. Whatever benefits 
a measure may promise, there will always be those who fail to recog- 
nize the anticipated advantages ; and there are generally not a few 
who consider it a duty to combat the least innovation on existing 
practices. The object of these remarks, however, is to show that 
there is no impediment to the establishment of a prime meridian for 
the world unmarked by national pre-eminence, a meridian in itself 
admirably adapted for the important purposes referred to in connection 
