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**We were 24 days on the passage ov£r and remained one week in 

 Yokahama and Yedo, before taking the steamer for JSTa^asaki. No time 

 was to be lost, and at 12 o'clock, on the day of our arrival they had 30 

 coolies building the road up to the side of the observatory, which is 300 

 feet high, and about a mile and a half sout:h of the town. They have 

 been working night and day ever since, feeling somewhat hurried. You 

 can imagine with what anxiety every cloud was watched for several days 

 before — which had been hazy or cloudy in the mornings — blowing over 

 by midday. 



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The preceding night was clear and beautiful until day-break, when clouds 

 began rapidly to form, breaking away again about 7^, and clouding over 

 again by 9^. The observers remained all night on the hill and the others 

 were at their post by 1^ o'clock. I went up in a sedan chair (carried by four 

 Coolies), and we were all at our posts of duty by ten o'clock and as the 

 time draws nearer, you can imagine our suspense. In my husband's 

 observatory (the large equatorial), just before the computed time, the sun 

 seemed to be breaking through the clouds and all was in readiness ; 

 George, the largest boy holding the chronometers up to his father's eye 

 and ear ; and I seated (where I would see my husband's face,) with book 

 and pencil in hand, with closed doors and perfect silence, save the regular 



