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tioa as might enable us to determinethc bcfl place for our 

 obfervations; and, on mature deliberation, we fixed on a 

 place about one quater of a mile S. W. of the town of Z^> 

 tjues-y v./here n convenient houfe was to be liad, in a retired 

 fituation, and having an open view of the fl^y/ 



We found on our firft landing on the beach, that neither 

 the Light-IIoufe^ nor any place near the fea-lhore, would 

 .be fuitable for our obfervations; as it would be difficult to 

 keep our inftruments fteady, or defend either the glaffes 

 of the telefcopes, or the eyes of the obfcrvers, from rcceiv 

 ing injury by the fand which is wafted about by the wind. 



Having chofen our place, we fixt up our inftruments 

 on the 27th of the month^and had fome good correfpond- 

 ing altitudes of the Sun that day by which wefetour clock, 



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and took fome equal altitudes of fixt ftars in the evening. 

 The four following days continued cloudy, with frequent 

 rains. But that we might not be idle in the mean time, 

 and have it in our power to afcertain our latitude and lon- 

 gitude, in cafe we fliould be difappointed of celeftial obfer- 

 vations for that purpofe; Joel Bailey and Richard Tliomas, 



went to take the courfes and diftances from our obfervatory, 



to the provincial weft line, which was run from Fenwick's 

 Ifland to the middle point of the peninfula; fo that our ob- 

 fewatory might thereby be connected with MefTrs, Mafoa 



and Dixon's meridian line. 



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from this fervice; and by their care and Ikill, I make no 

 doubt, they performed it with the neceftary precifion. 



We had concluded that it would be a more expeditioiis 

 way to take the courfes, &c» from our obfervatory to the 

 weft line, rather along the neareft public road than to run 

 in one direct courfe through the woods ; as by this laft me- 

 thod, both the expence and delay of opening a vifta, would 

 have been necelfary. 



As the fixing the latitude and longitude of our obferva- 

 tory muft depend chiefly on this part of the work, I fliall 

 here infert the field notes, before I proceed to draw the 



conclufions 



