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UNIVERSAL OR COSMIC TIME. 



The fcwenty-four Hoia* Meridians so determined come in the fol- 

 lowing order, viz. : 



Thus the exact position of the twenty-four secondary or Hour Meri- 

 dians is practically determined, and pi'ovision is thereby made for 

 extending around the globe the Hour-system of regulating time 

 which has been adopted with so much advantage in America. 



These Hour Meridians, so designated, completely establish the rela- 

 tion between Cosmic time and longitude. Once every day the rela- 

 tionship will be prominently brought under the notice of every indi- 

 vidual. Everyone, for example, living on the 6th Hour Meridian, 

 will know at noon that it is at that instant six o'clock Cosmic time ', 

 or, take the citizens of Toronto, the local time of which is governed 

 by the 17th Hour Meridian; at the hour of noon they will know 

 that it is 17 o'clock Cosmic Time. Invariable time will thus agree 

 with longitude, conversely longitude with time. By this arrange- 

 ment the earth itself becomes the great Standard Chronometer for all 



