34 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FRANCIS ARAGO. 
ornamented his pastoral ring. This idea, I must frankly 
declare, had preoccupied me during the whole of the 
Visit. 
M. Biot having at last come to seek me again at Valen- 
cia, where I expected, as I have before said, some new in- 
struments, we went on to Formentera, the southern ex- 
tremity of our are, of which place we determined the 
latitude. M. Biot quitted me afterwards to return to 
Paris, whilst I made the geodesical junction of the island 
of Majorca to Iviza, and to Formentera, obtaining thus, 
by means of one single triangle, the measure of an arc 
of parallel of one degree and a half. 
I then went to Majorca, to measure there the latitude 
and the azimuth. 
At this epoch, the political fermentation, engendered 
by the entrance of the French into Spain, began to in- 
vade the whole Peninsula and the islands dependent on 
it. This ferment had as yet in Majorca only reached 
to the ministers, the partisans, and the relations of the 
Prince of Peace. Each evening, I saw, drawn in tri- 
umph in the square of Palma, the capital of the island 
of Majorca, on carriages, the effigies in flames, sometimes 
of the minister Soller, another time those of the bishop, 
and even those of private individuals supposed to be 
attached to the fortunes of the favourite Godoi. I was far 
from suspecting then that my turn would soon arrive. 
My station at Majorca, the Clop de Galazo, a very 
high mountain, was situated exactly over the port where 
Don Jayme el Conquistator disembarked when he went 
to deliver the Balearic Islands from the Moors. The 
report spread itself through the population that I had 
established myself there in order to favour the arrival of 
the French army, and that every evening I made signals 
