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VIII. GeoQ-rfiphical Positions of several Places iii, France, Swit- 

 zerland, and Germany. 



The above table is published in the Correspondence Astrono- 

 mique, Geographique, Hydrographique et Statistique, of Baron 

 von Zach, vol. i. p. 149. The positions were ascertained by 

 geographical engineers, of the Bureau Topographique at Paris, 

 some of them nearly 20 years ago, but the results had not been 

 pubhshed before. Baron von Zach considers it as exceedingly 

 correct. 



IX. Latitude of the Observatory at Manheitn. 



Prof. Schumacher, at Copenhagen, from a great number of 

 observations, has determined the latitude of the Observatory at 

 Manheim to be 49° 29' 13-70".— (See Zach's Corr. Astron. 

 i. 193.) 



X. Height of the Passage over the Spliigen. 



The Austrian engineers at present employed in making this 

 road have determined the height trigonometrically, and found it 

 6393 French feet above the level of the sea. Dr. Schouvv, one 

 of the philosophers -at present travelling at the expense of the 

 King of Denmark, found the height, by a barometrical observa- 

 tion, 6451 French feet. The difference between these two 

 determinations is only 58 feet, which, in the case of an isolated 



