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struments, to make observations with them at places whose positions 

 have been carefully determined by experienced and eminent obser- 

 vers ; and when we find a coincidence in the i-esults, it tends to in- 

 crease our confidence in the observations we may have made with the 

 same instruments on other occasions. So near a coincidence, however, 

 as exists between the latitude as stated above, and that deduced from 

 professor EUicott's observations, must be considered in some measure 

 as fortuitous. So correct a result could not, under the most favourable 

 circumstances, be expected from a single observation with a sextant 

 whose j!;raduations were limited to half-minutes of a degree. 



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