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XXX, A Letter from J. A. Rizzi Zan- 
noni, Member of the Academy of Sciences 
at Gottingen, and Geographer to his Si- 
cilian Majefy , to the late Earl a/' Morton, 
Pr. R . S. containing fever al Aftronomical 
Obfervations , made in feveral Parts of the 
Kingdom of Naples and Sicily ; tranflated 
from the French, by Mathew Maty, M. D . 
Sec. R. S. 
Naples, July 29, 1768. 
My Lord, 
Read Nov. io,t Take the liberty to apply to your Lord- 
JL Ship on a fubjedt of great importance 
to geography. His Sicilian Majefty has lately or- 
dered a topographical map of his dominions to be 
made j and all the materials, which are to ferve for 
that work, have been collected together. 
We frankly acknowledge, my Lord, that w r e are 
indebted to Englishmen for moft of the aftronomical 
observations, made in various parts of the kingdom of 
Naples. The following lift contains them all ; but, 
in order to render them tifeful, it would be neceftary 
to have the corresponding ones made at London, or 
Greenwich, the latitude and longitud of thefe two 
places being perfe&ly known, by the accurate ol>- 
iervations of the mathematicians bellonging to the 
Royal Society. 
We, 
