Meafurhtg a Degree of the Meridian in Lapland. 189 



fliores of Corfica, and wrcckttl. Tifclibein's good fortune, 

 however, ftil] attended him, and the drawinsjs were faved. 

 Retarded by Inch impedinie7its thrown in his way by the 

 waves of tlie fea, or the arms oftheenemv, he was feven long 

 months in reaching Calfel, where he left his valuable collec- 

 tion under the care of his brother, and repaired to Gottingen, 

 to make arrangements for the pulilication of his work, under 

 the infpeftion and with the aliiliance of the celebrated pro- 

 feflor lleync, with whom he had already corrcfoonded, and 

 invited to take a (hare in this important undertaking. 



The German text of this work is from the pen of Heyne ; 

 and Villers, author of a Commentary on the Philofophy of 

 Kant, gives a French tranflation of it. Each number con- 

 tains fix plates, and the whole when complete will form two 

 volumes folio ; one for the Hind, and the other for the 

 Odylley. The numbers are to be publiflicd in fueh a man- 

 ner, that one relating to the Iliad and another to the Odylfey 

 will appear allernatuy. The tirft number contains a fuperb 

 head of Homer, after the Farnefian bull; Homer inllruAed 

 by the Mufes, after a cameo; the apotheofis of Homer, from 

 a filver cup; the rape of Helen, from a farcophagus ; the 

 heads of the fcvcn principal heroes, from feven antique bufts ; 

 and the body of Anliloclnis placed on a car by Nellor, from 

 a bas-relief in white marble. 



MEASURING A DKGREE OF THE MERIDIAN IN 

 LAPLAND, 



The following extraiSt of a letter on this fubjedt from M. 

 Melanderhielm, perpetual fecretary of the Academy of 

 Sciences of Stockholm, to C. Delambre, member of the 

 French National lultiiute, dated OAober 9th and December 

 22d, will fliow what progrefs has been made in this opera- 

 tion. 



" The three packages arrived fafe three days ago. I have 

 received the circle, the double metre with the toile, and the 

 books. The whole were in good condition, and had fuf- 

 tained no damage by the way- 



"Since thefc articles arrived, MeflVs. Svanberg, OlVerbom 

 and mvfelf have been emploved in examinino- all the parts 

 of the circle, and comiiaring it with the compkie defcriptiou 

 which you had the kinilnels to cf)inunmieale to me. We 

 have thus obtained a perleft knowledge of the niecha- 

 nifm of the mttrument, the ufe of all its parts, and the 

 method <jf making obfervations. As the profpe^t from the 

 huufe where I rcfide is conriiitd, I (liall cuulc the circle to be 

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