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more than the Indians were able to perform, as 

 they carried the field-tents, baggage, and inftruments, 

 they were obliged to flop half way ; fo that thofe on 

 the top were under a necefTity of paiTing the night- 

 there without any fhelter; and a hard froft coming 

 on, they were almofl perifhed with cold ; for they 

 were fo greatly affeded by it, that they had no ufe of 

 their limbs, till they returned to a warmer air. Af- 

 ter ail thefe hardfhips, the gentlemen could not finifh 

 their obfervations, fome of the fignals being wanting, 

 having either been blown down by the winds, or 

 carried away by the Indian herdfmen : fo that, during 

 the interval while perfons were employed in ereding 

 others, they returned to Quito, and applied them- 

 felves to examine the divifions of the quadrants. 

 Thefe operations, being very tedious, employed them 

 till the month of December, when, all the fjgnals 

 which were wanting being replaced, they again, ont 

 the 20th of December, repaired to their poft at Tan- 

 lagua-, and on the 27th liniilied the obfervations ne- 

 celTary to be made at that ftation. 



V. Signal on the mountain of Guapulo. 



The fignal of Guapulo being ereded on a moun- 

 tain of no great height, and in the neighbourhood of 

 Quito, their refidence was not neceflary for, by fet- 

 ting out from the city at day-break, they could reach 

 the field-tent where the inflruments were left, early int 

 the morning. Thefe journies repeated every day ; 

 and though every moment of time was improved to 

 the greateft advantage, it was the 24th of January 

 1738 before they finifh ed the obfervations, with that 

 accurate precifion fo conlpicuous in all their operations^ 



VI. Signal on the Cordillera and defertof Guamani^ 



They were obliged to make two journies to the; 

 mountain of Guamani, the fignal having been firft 

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