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inconveniently for directing the Telescope to the object, and 

 is not graduated ; not even ^vith a Zero Line. Mr. Dunlop 

 complains generally of the Instrument, as being so very 

 unsatisfactory in its fittings and the graduation of the Circle 

 itself as to be quite uneless. 



Connected with the Meridian Circle is a thirty inch Transit, 

 the Ys being fixed on stone pillars to serve as a Collimator. 



A Pocket Chronometer, by Dallas, requiring slight repairs. 



A Box Chronometer, by Dent, No. 220, in good order. 



A Levelling Telescope, Rod and Chain, Staves, &c., 

 complete, in good order and ready for use. 



The Instruments above enumerated have been individually 

 seen by us ; but the Mural Circle and the Sidereal Clock 

 only are in use. Generally the Instruments require to be 

 cleaned, and the stone pillars which have been erected on a 

 bad foundation have sunk so much as to be out of the 

 perpendicular. 



The Building is in a very delapidated state, the partition 

 walls having settled ; the floor and partitions perfectly rotten 

 from the effect of the white ant ; and the roof admitting rain 

 in most parts, the canvas coverings of the domes are quite 

 rotten and torn, and affords no protection to the Instruments ; 

 in fact, they are all but entirely exposed to the weather, and 

 will soon be destroyed unless steps are taken to protect them, 

 until another building be erected. 



BOOKS. 



VOL. 



One Navigation, by Dulague. 



One Bonnycastle's Astronomy. 



One Diviseurs des Nombres par Siddonne. 



One Simpson's Conic Sections. 



One Instruction sur les poides et les m^sures. 



One Arithmetic de Mauduit. 



One Barlow's Theory of Numbers. 



One Etude de Ciel par Mallet. 



One Dowling's Key to Button's Course of Mathematics. 



Two Annales de Chimie. 



Six Dictionnaire de Physique. 



One Plates to do. 



One Mackay's Mathematical Tables. 



One Treatise on Fluxions, by Vince. 



Leslie's Philosophy of Arithmetic. 



Three Salande's_ Astronomy. 



One Salande's Navigation. 



One Tables du Soleil par Delambre. 



Three Delambre's Astronomy. 



Three Base du Syst6me M6trique. 



Two Le9ons M6canique par Prony. 



One Delambre's Histoire de I'Astronomie. 



One Wollaston's Fasciculus. 



Two Long's Astronomy. 



One Memoire sur I'Astronomie pratique. 



One (Fifth Vol.) M6canique Celeste. 



Two Euler's Algebra. 



Three Shubert's Astronomy. 



One Algebra by Le Cloud. 



Two Ferguson's Astronomy. 



Two Trait6 de G6odesie par Puissant. 



