have been owing to the eo that the ects 
as a perfect circle, and not, as it is now believed to be, 
ess irregular, or somewhat elliptical i in form. This latter 
—*S0 long us the iia in mind eoninnies to be ee 
jena a power of geometry, so long will the diameter be 
ee a blun- 
The axis 
‘and the one 
Leake scientific one, 
The half meridian drawn 
Paris probably differs in length from that mak through 
ngton, or indeed any other national capita The 
s based upon the division of a curved line, and not 
. 
th, * one ous se ree for St we a < 
t, or what in geometry, would be called a right line. 
ith 
i‘ he affirms, i is the one-five hundred millionth part of 
The British inch, so familiar to 
t Anglo-Saxon peoples was in all likelihood derived 
the Tab aloes of Joseph, if the learned astronomer’s | 
He says on page 40 of his work :—“We 
eae in the Great Seas by Piazzi Smith. F. R. = By 
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