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Jin Account of the measurement of an Arc on the meri°* 

 dian comprehended between the latitudes 8° 9 38\S9 

 and 10° 59 48". 93 North, being a continuation of the 

 grand meridional Arc, commenced in 1804j> and 

 extending to 14° 6' 19' JSforth. 



By Major WILLIAM LAMBTON, 

 ssfc Eegtment Mot 



= N a paper which I communicated to the Asiatich society, and which 

 was published m the tenth volume of the Researches, I took an oppor- 

 tunity -of noticing 'that a meridional arc had been measured upwards of 

 three degrees in amplitude. Being in expectation that the detailed ac- 



