LETTER from the Right Honorable the Governor General to the President, 

 transmitting the following c ommunicatioa. 



Fort St. Geo&ge, 3d January, 1810,, 

 SIR, 



JL have the honour to transmit to you for the purpose of being laid before 

 the Asiatic Society, a paper ■which I have received from Major William: 

 Lambton of H. M. 33d Regiment of Foot, entitled, " An account of the mea- 

 ee surement of an Arc on the Meridian, comprehended between the latitudes 

 "89 33.39 and 10 59' 48.93 North, being a continuation of the grand Mcridi* 



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te otial Arc, commenced in 1804;, and extending to 14 6 19 North." 



I have great pleasure in being the channel of communicating to the learned 

 Society a paper containing niatter of such high importance to the interests of 

 science, and furnishing so many new proofs of the eminent endowments and in- 

 defatigable exertions which have long distinguished the character and labours of 

 Us respectable and meritorious author, 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your obedient humble servant. 



M I JV T 0* 



Hon. H. T. Cole brooks, %'c. %c. %6. 



