1820.] Scientific Intelligence. loi 



The position of the coasts of the Adriatic Sea not being yet 

 well determined, Baron von Zach has added a few more facts to 

 those above stated by Capt. Smyth. It will be v/orth v/hile to 

 mention some of the principal of these. 



1. Lecce, a town between Otranto and Brindisi, the Aletiuni 

 of the ancients, was visited by Rizzi-Zannoni in 1786, who, 

 being provided with an excellent Ramsden's quadrant of two 

 feet radius, detei'mined its position as follows : 



Latitude, 40° 41' 4-2". 



2. Baron von Zach, being at Venice in 1807, determined 

 the position of a great number of places in that city. It will be 

 sufficient to give one of these here : namely, the steeple of 

 St. Mark. 



Latitude 45° 25' 



Longitude 30 



58-1" 



37'2 E, fromFerro. 



3. Being at Rimini in 1808, a city belonging to the states of 

 the church, Baron von Zach determined tlie position of the 

 following places : 



Rimini le fanal . 



Rimini palais Garampi . . . 

 Tour de la Fontanella. . . . 

 Convent sur le mont Laro 



Longitude from 

 Ferro. 



30° 12' 18" 



30 12 36 



30 18 37 



30 24 20 



4. In 1799 the Austrian government sent the astronomer 

 M. Bogdanich into Hungary to determine the geographical 

 position of the principal places. Among the rest he'delermined 

 the position of the two following places on the coast of the 

 Adriatic. 



Fiumi (garden of the Cordehers). . 

 Carlopago (garden of the Comm.) . 



Laliliide. 



45° 20' 10" 

 44 31 35 



Longitude. 



32° 5' 20" 

 32 54 40 



5. 



M. Quenot on his return from the unfortunate expedition fa> 

 Egypt about the end of 1798, determined the position of the two 

 following places : 



Latitude. Longitude. 



Ragusa 42° 36' 30" 35° 51' 40^^ 



Lissa. 



43 10 00 



33 



51 



00 



6. The brother of Baron von Zach, at that time in the Aus- 

 trian service, was employed between 1801 and 1805 in making 

 a survey of the Duchy of Venice, lie determined the positic/U 

 of the following placeii on the coaat of the Adriatic : 



