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In account of observations: -taken at the 

 near Fort St. George 9 in 'the East Indies 9 for Set er^ 

 fnining the Obliquity of me Ecliptic in the months of 



J)ecember $ 1809, June and December $ 181.0, 



i, .ALTHOUGH the diminution of the obliquity of the ecliptic be a 

 question of a general nature, and in that respect not immediately within 

 the scope of the researches of the Asiatick society; yet if we advert to the 

 opinion of a celebrated mathematician,* " that it is only within the tor- 

 " rid zone, and near to the equator that the obliquity of the ecliptic can 

 " be observed with great precision/ 8 the subject may be deemed to fall 

 within their province, and to be deserving of their attention. 



* Vide Bougaen's figure de la terre, pag. 230. 



