AT SANTIAGO DE CHILE. 



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Remarks. 



Fine morning. Images good and motion equable. Cirri prevented earlier measures. There is a email star preceding the planet 4>. or is., which 

 at the commencement, was recorded as below it. 



a Very good measures. c Planet certainly south of the preceding star. 



4 Planet's south limb and the preceding star precisely d Daylight. Rejected this pair. 



on the same parallel. 

 Diameter of Venus from a mean of 10 measures, by daylight, at 13*. 15m. sid. time, 3.059 rev. Corrected diameter, 38". 00. 



Results. 



Mean . . Eight Uansiu 



Correction for chronometer at 12 20 . 



h. m. 

 A p at 12 22 



0.14 



JANUARY US, 1851. 



Cirri prevented the morning observations. 



