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Art. II.—Translation from Mr. seo me essa s irate 
Phi Se pile ere Nachrichten,) Hamburgh, No. 
7 e plans, arrangements and eiethods, Yee 
pee used by Mr. F. R. Hassler, with a view to an accu- 
rate survey of the coast of the United States, by the Chev- 
alier F, W. Bessel, Professor in the University of Ko- 
nigsberg. Communicated by Pror, James Renwick, of 
Columbia College, New York 
In 1807, Mr. Hassler then in Philadelphia, was rodueuthd: 
on the part of the government of the United States, to fur- 
nish a plan for the survey of the whole coast of that coun- 
his was done in a letter to Mr. Gallatin, which proves 
pee insight into the nature of such operations. mA is eVi- 
nt from it, that the survey was to have been a work of 
ayeat extent, and such as should satisfy the recite both of 
geography and of navigation. 
In consequence of this plan, Mr. H. went to England to 
& 
procure the necessary instruments, &c. A most complete 
apparatus was brought boperbets consisting printapatiy: of 
instruments constructed u K he 
year 1816, the St ee itself began. It appears to have 
been interrupted i after, and therefore not to have given 
the expected resu * 
ba Mr. H. dencribel his arrangements and methods in 
paper which has also been printed, as an extract from the 
Philosophical Transactions of Philadelphia, which contains 
many new views in relation to instruments, that I believe 
I shall make an agreeable communication to the readers of 
this journal by an extract from this paper, which has proba- 
bly not become very extensively known (in Germany.) Mr. 
H. appears by it as a man, who would rather think "ioe him- 
Uni- 
* The suspension of the operations for the survey of the coast of the 
r. Hassler, may be conside 
ted States, begun in so admirab ne sie cel eines a the 
asa national misfortune. It is such in truth, not so m - vA defe < 
oa fu m the fact, 
seathons noi , and some of tually used by Mr. a a = 
—— of the science of Europe at the period. As these princ hedges i 
require hest proficiency i in mathematical and physic: 
spplicdion to en 20 originally in the United States, would have redounded 
to the national honor. 
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