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temperature of 62^, which is within r-A-.^^ part of an inch of what 

 the French meafure will be, when reduced to the fame temperature i 

 a quantity altogether infenfible. 



Having brought thefe meridional operations to fo fuccefsful a con*- 

 clufion, it may not be altogether out of place to give fome account of 

 the ilill more extenlive geographical ones, of which thefe have been a 

 principal foundation. — ^The whole of the peninfula is now completed 

 from Goa on the weft, to Mafidipatam on the eaft, with all the interior 

 country from Cape Comorin to the fouthern boundaries of the Nizam ^ 

 and Marhattds territories. In that great extent of country^ every ob« 

 je6t that could be of ufe in geography, or in facilitating th€ detailed 

 furveys of the provinces, has been laid down with, precifion. — All 

 the great rivers fketched in, in a general manner, and all the great 

 ranges of mountains ilightly depicted. The latter part of the furvey 

 which takes in the northern part of the peninfula between the latitude 

 of 14*^, and fouthern frontiers of the foreign dominions, has been 

 attended with peculiar fuccefs^ and the diftri6ls of Nellore, Guntoor, 

 Palnaud, the ceded diftricls, the Myfoor to the north of 1^°^ the Soondak 



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country, and the diftrift of Goa^ are covered with a net of triangles, 

 without a fingle break. The diftnfts o^ Soondak 2ind Goa h^VQ been 

 furveyed by Lieutenant Garung, of the Madras eftablifliment, who has- 

 in his poffeffion a fine inftrument made by Cart ♦, and fuch was my 

 opinion of his accuracy and judgment, that I requefted to be furnifh- 

 ed with his triangles to include in my general report ; and the near 

 coincidence of the (ides common to both furveys, has proved that 

 my confidence was not mifplaced. 



My excuriion into the Nizam's country was for the fole purpofe of" 

 geuing three degrees more to the arc, and it was with fome heii- 



