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dence attached to the jirst meridian of longitude be assigned to 
Pulkowa or to Greenwich? There could be no doubt that 
like a true astronomer, remembered the long line of illustrious 
men who had toiled at Greenwich, the old traditions of Flam- 
* Struve remarks that. along the are between the mouths of the Danube and the - 
Arctic Sea, there is go bill. weed feet high. Over a great portion of it the country — 
is so level and wooded that it was often necessary to erect lofty scaffolds in order 
to see the necessary . ae 
