AT SANTIAGO DE CHILE. 



251 



Remarks. 



a Very much blurred and unsteady. b Too tremulous to be valuable. 



Results. 



Mean 



Two transits 



It. m. 

 Correction for chronometer at 2 . 



li. in. s. 

 . 1 31.54 



m. s. 



4 19.87 



m. s. 

 9 10.74 



Rev. 

 -f- 1.797 



Ii.m. 



A p nt 2 



Santiago sid. time N. P. 



n 

 . 0.03 



. =0 35.02 



h. m. s. 

 23 57 11.67 



Remarks. 



The night has been remarkably clear; but, owing to an unprecedented storm of rain, accomp;u.ied with thunder and lightning from 4 A. . until 

 ll; A. M., there is so much moisture in the air that boih objects ore blazing and unsteady. The measures are therefore only fair. 



a Measures by daylight. ' l-"i>~ '''< working well. 



