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depend less on it, Indeed so unexceptionable did this plan appear, that 
¥ determined at once to employ it; and the only motives that afterwards 
induced me to change my mind, were, the insufficiency of the seasoned 
wood, I had brought down from the mountains to construct three trussed: 
rods of that length or even two; and a hope, that by another method which 
I had just fallen on, E should be enabled to get through the work sti!l more 
_ expeditiously than by this, particularly as I should lose less time in the 
preparatory operations. This new method which was the one finally 
employed, I now proceed to give an acconnt of. 
5. ‘Tnx piece of wood out of which fT was to construct the measuring 
apparatus, was twenty-six feet in length and about six inches by four. It 
was a piece of that beautiful species of pine, called by Dr. Roxeurcu 
Deodara,* the wood of which tke mountaineers consider indestructible. ° 
{i had been taken out of a dwelling house which had fallen into decay, and. 
as the houses in that part of the country last a very long time, this pieces. 
which had served as a beam, could hardly fail of being well seasoned. 
Being so small however, it was quite out of the question to have more 
than one trussed rod out of it, and as I saw that with lessthan three rods, the 
measurement could not be depended on, I resolved to dispense with the 
trussing, by which means I should have four of twenty-five feet each, making 
one hundred feet or an equivalent to the chain. A rod twenty-five feet in 
leneth, and 12 inches by 14 (as I was obliged to construct it), it may 
be easily conceived, must be considerably too pliable. It was therefore 
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* Yuts is undoubtedly the Pinus Cedrus or Cedar of Lebanon. Uopvason. 
