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ompared with the same surveys executed or in progress of execu- 
tion by foreign governments, the American survey has been conducted 
with remarkable economy. 
_ 8. Compared with such foreign surveys, the quality of the work done 
in this will bear the test of any standard that has ever been anywhere 
set up, and is such as to reflect honor on the scientific character of our 
country in the eyes of the world. 
very consideration of economy, of humanity, and of regard for 
the reputation of the country, demands that the work should be prose- 
cuted with undiminished activity, until every portion of our coast shall 
have been as thoroughly explored and mapped as those have been already 
in which its operations commenced. 
10, Conclusive reasons, involving other weighty public interests no less 
than this, but connected also with the project of verifying in the happiest 
manner the geodesy of our extended and circuitous coast, conspire to 
render the triangulation of the great Appalachian chain of mountains a 
most important work to be execute 
be a contribution to science, and especially to the science of geodesy, 
inappreciable value, besides being necessary to secure the records against 
loss; and the committee earnestly hope that the government may not fail 
‘o provide the means for the adequate and rapid prosecution of the wor 
arization made at the tropics. at 
end of twilight. The letter 1s dated San Domingos, 
His observations. at that place, Dee. 
6, 1858. . 
1, 2, and 3, indicated that the limit of atmospheric polarization Was 
— ses east of the zenith 
SECOND SERIES, Vot. XXVII, No. 81.—MAY, 1859. 
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