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VIII. 



Annccountof the Meafurement of an Arc on the Meridian 

 .-extending from Latitude to 59 49 to 15° 6' 0" 



r?— — — : -1- 



or WILLIAM LAMBTON, 



33 rd -REGIMENT OF, FOOT. 



JlT is with much- fatisfaelion- that I have it in my- power to (late to the 

 Society, the fuccefs which has attended a further .extenfion of the 

 grand meridional arc, and the concluhve refqlts from another feries.of 

 agronomical obfervations at a-liation neavGooiy, in latitude 15 &0&5* 

 I am thereby enabled to fet afide entirely thofe doubtful. obfervations 

 at Dodagoontah, fo often mentioned in my former communications ; 

 not however without fome regret at the neceffity of fo doing ; becaufe 

 I wifhed to 'have noticed the progreffive increafe of the -degrees on.th? 



