Ch.111. south AMERICA. 



XXXII. XXXIII. XXXIV. XXXV. Signals on 

 Guapulo, the mountain of Campanario, and thofe of 

 Cofin, and Mira. 



The obfervations to be made at thefe four ftations, 

 could not be finifhed till thofe alarming reafons which 

 called us to Lima and Chiii no longer fubfifted, and 

 we were returned to Quito. The work at the firO: 

 and lall: ftations was difpatched without the neceffity 

 of lodging there ; for being near Qiiito, and the vil- 

 lage of Mira, when the weather promifed us a favour- 

 able opportunity, it was only an eafy ride ; but we 

 found it very different with regard to the ftations of 

 Campanario and Cofin. However, we left all the four 

 at the fame time, namely, on the 23d of May 1744; 

 the day when Don George and myfelf put the finilh- 

 ino; hand to the afcronomical obfervations which we 

 had re-affumed on the 14th of February of the 

 fame year and thus the whole procefs relative to the 

 menfu ration of an arch of the meridian was con- 

 cluded. 



Signals ereEied on deferts^ &c. where the ohfervatioris 

 were conduEled by Mr. Godin and Don George Juan. 



The ftations immediately fubfequent to the admea- 

 furement of the bafe of Yaruqui, in the year 1736, 

 and afterwards not made ufe of, as we have already ob- 

 ferved, were common to both companies ; the method 

 which was afterwards followed, for every one to ob- 

 ferve two angles in all the triangles^ not having been 

 thought of; though it both fhortened the work, and, 

 at the fame time, rendered it much eafier : fo that 

 Don George Juan and Mr. Godin were on the deferts 

 of Yilahalo and Pambamarca, at the fame time with 

 Meff. Bouo;uer and Condamine and mvfelf. 



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