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chiefly on the borders of the marfh-Iands, or, which 
is the fame thing, round the fkirts of the rockey 
parts. I faw no other wood, of any kind, that would 
bear the name of trees ; but, except where the rocks 
are entirely bare, or where the ground is covered 
with water every tide, it is entirely covered with low 
bufh-vvood, after we get a few miles from the factory. 
Thefe fhrubs confift of willows of many kinds, birch, 
juniper, goofeberry, and black currants. I faw fe- 
veral plants, very different from any which 1 have 
ever feen in England j but am not botanift enough 
to clafs, or even give a tolerable defcription of them *. 
Auguft the 19th and 20th. We laid the foun- 
dation of the obfervatory in its proper place and po- 
lition, which was on the S. E. baftion, the higher and 
lower obfervatories nearly N. N. E. and S. S. W. 
of each other refpectively. This place and pofition, 
though inconvenient in fome refpedts, were, in my 
opinion, the moft eligible for our purpofe. We alfo 
got up the ffdes thereof, and fixed up a ftiff plank 
of dry Englifh oak to fcrew the clock to ; this plank 
was about 5 \ feet out of the ground, 4 feet in it, 16 
inches broad, and 4 \ thick, and fupported with lpurs 
to make it fteady. There was likewife placed at 
the foot of it, in the moft folid manner poflible, a 
ftone of about a quarter of a ton weight, with a flat 
furface, to fet the bottom of the clock-cafe on ; fo 
that the clock flood entirely independent of the ob- 
fervatory. 
* I have brought fome of them home with me in the beft 
manner I could ; but imagine they are not worth notice, on ac- 
count of my want of experience in drying them. 
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