192 AN ACCOUNT OF ‘THE 
feet due to it, and consequently, the observations being supposed correct, the 
distances of ihe two-places, which might be used as a base of’ great mag= 
nitude. The stations’? selected for this purpose were first thé house of-Mi. 
GrinDALt, the judge and magistrate of Sehdranpir, which for the sake of 
distinction we shal} call Belwille, a very large and conspicuous white building 
in an open situation, one mile anda half south of the town of Sehdranpir. 
The second or northern station is a very remarkable and lofty mountain, 
which divides the hill provinces of Sirmor and Jébal, called the Clui* or 
Chirked har: in summit is upwards of 11,000 feet above the level of Ses 
haranpur ; the point where I fixed the station is 10,650 higher than: the 
station at Belville, from whence its. Azimuth 3.25.05, to the west of north; 
a direction so near the meridian, bemg extremely valuable, in determining 
the distance in the manner I proposed. The station mark on the Chur; 
is a pyramid which I built of pine trees, rock and turf, 35 feet high: i€ is 
visible from Belville with the mstruments I intended using, and the ‘south 
point of the line there, is seen from the Chair‘, by firing white lights om. it 
at night. * 
Tue distance of these stations is upwards of 61 B. miles, a distance suffi- 
ciently long to serve as a base for the most distant: snowy peaks. visible 
from either end of it, and I hoped, that by taking: a great number of zenith 
distances at each place, I should be able with a reflecting’ cirele, to de- 
termine the difference of latitude within two or three seconds, which, relative- 
ly to the great length of the arc, (upwards of 53 minutes) could only occa- 
sion a small uncertainty in the distance, and of course, a much smaller in 
the elevation of the objects to be observed from its extremities. Experience 
