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anchorage was abreast of a plain of considerable extent, on the inner 
or south westernmost of the two largest islands; the plain consisted 
of the debris of a sandstone rock, and was generally swampy; but 
a perfectly dry spot, which had been the site of an Esquimaux 
village, was found for the pendulums on the shore close to the 
anchorage ... The height of the pendulums above the sea was as- 
certained by direct measurement, to be thirty-one feet and a half.” 
On, or at any rate in the neighbourhood of the ruins of the 
Esquimaux houses we must look for SaBINE's Observatory, but un- 
fortunately РауЕв has not marked off the ruins of the houses on his 
map. Ås the latter, however, are situated within a kilometre from 
the wintering place of Germania we may suppose that Payer has 
had a tolerably clear understanding of its site, when, after the 
return of the expedition, he marked off the site of SABINE's 
Observatory on the map. 
In doing this, however, he must have encountered a difficulty, 
which it has been impossible for him to overlook, that is, that the 
determination of longitude of SABINE could not in this manner be 
brought into harmony with that of the Germaniaexpedition. 
Also BORGEN and COPELAND must necessarily have realised this, 
and it is rather peculiar that they do not mention the fact; but they 
may have rested content with the thought that after all one did not 
know, where SABINE's Observatory had been, and that the matter 
was consequently not worth mentioning. PAYER, on the other hand, 
had to surmount the difficulty, and to assist him in that he had the 
determination of latitude of SABINE. The latitude of the Observatory 
in Germania Harbour is, when only the observations of the sun are 
taken into account, determined at 74°32’16”.7, whilst SABINE, likewise 
by means of observations of the sun, has determined the latitude of 
his Observatory at 74°32'18”.6. On Payer’s map, however, SABINE’S 
Observatory lies about 120 metres or about 4” more northerly than 
the Observatory in Germania Harbour, which in so far is striking, 
as the discrepancy between the longitudes of the two observatories 
would have become smaller, in case PAYER had marked off SABINE’s 
Observatory accurately from the latitude given by the latter or a 
still more southerly latitude. He may, of course, have been of opinion 
that he ought to pay some attention to CLAVERING’s map, or to the 
site of the ruins of the houses, and on the other hand it may be 
some smaller inaccuracy we are dealing with. 
A somewhat exhaustive comparison between the latitudes of the 
two observatories is not without interest. At the comparison we can, 
as already observed, only take count of the observations of the sun, 
because SABINE has nothing else to go on. The basis of the compari- 
