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Charts of thefe Parts, which can be had, at order 
to verify and corred them in my Way. According as 
thefe Charts are thus finififd in the beft Manner, they 
may be engraved. I likewife intend to publilh, as 
foon as poflible, all the Operations and Obfervations 
I fhall have made in my Expedition $ that thus early 
Benefit may be reap'd from them, and that the Pub- 
lick, at the fame time the Charts come out, may be 
acquainted with the Foundation on which they are 
conftruded. I once thought to have by this time 
printed the whole Detail of my Operations in taking 
the Bafts, that is, of the Precautions I ufed in afeer- 
taining it 5 but as it was meafured in Englifh Feet, 
which I have a Defire to reduce to this Country 
Meafure, and that 'tis requifite to confult the original 
Standards here on this Head, which I have not as 
yet been able to procure 5 for thefe Reafons, I am 
obliged to delay the Publication of thefe firft Ob- 
fervations. * * * 
