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The carpenters, this day, put up the houfe, fe- 
parate from the obfervatory ; as there was not room 
left by the carpenter at Greenwich for fixing the 
tranfic-inftrument, 
Finifhed the digging, and fixed up .the port lor 
the clock } alfo put up that part of the obfervatory 
which moves round. Note, the poft for the clock 
was 3 feet deep in the ground. 
Carried the Inftruments on fliore ; the carpenters 
working at the obfervatory. 
Fixed up the clock, and fet it a-going. Note, 
The upper part of the bob of the pendulum 
was fet to fcratch, marked thus Jt- and the index 
to N° 14. It vibrated on each fide of the perpen- 
dicular 1° 30'. 
Put up the quadrant. It was placed upon the 
Hand provided for it. The Hand flood on a large 
cafk filled with water, very firmly fixed in the 
ground ; and the box in the bottom of the fland 
filled with flones. Cloudy weather. 
Placed one thermometer without doors, and the 
other within the obfervatory j alfo placed the baro- 
meter in a proper place. 
Cloudy till May 20> in the evening; when I 
took the following equal altitudes of the Sun. 
