ON THE MERIDIAN. . ,^. 



cerely hope, that after I relin£[uifh it, fome one will be found poflefling 

 zeal, conflitulion, and attainments wherewith to profecute it on the 

 principles already foUovyed —It would indeed be gratifying to me if I 

 could but entertain a diftant hope, that a work which I began, and 

 which will then be bioughtto fo conliderable a magnitude, fhouid at 

 fome future day be extended over Britijh India.. 



W.. LAMBXON. 

 HYdrab^ad, September 15, 1B15,.- 



l^r-COMPARISOir OF THE CHAINS, WITH THE BRASS 



STANDARD. . 



Previous to giving any detailed account of this fedion of the arc^ 

 ft will be proper to obferve, that it became necefTary to make fome cor» 

 region in the length of the bafe near Gooty, on account of an irregu-. 

 larity that was difcotered in the flandard cluin, or ratlier in the compa^ 

 rative lengths of thctWa' chiains. (t may be remembered that one of 

 the chains in my poifefTion has alwqys been applied as a Randard chain, 

 and having- been fent out new^ in 1802, I have kept it carefully 

 laid by, thinking ihat whrM it was clean and never ufed as a mea- 

 furing chain, its length would remain invariable ; and the com^ 

 parative lengths of the two chains feemed to be perfectly regular, 

 allowing for the wear of the meafuring chain, till previous to 

 mcafuring the bale near G(?(7^^.' — At the conclufion of the bafe near 

 PdarncoHah/ thQ cxcefs of the meafuring chain above the ftandar-d ,Qne 



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