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The telefcope and quadrant were the fame Mr# 
Wright ufed on the ifland of Anticofti. 
The ephemeris ufed was that of Mr. de la 
'CAille, calculated for ten years to the meridian of 
Paris. 
The telefcope I had fixed on a fieady ftand with- 
out doors, near the room where the clock flood, 
and the time counted by a very careful perfon, with 
another to overlook him : great care was alfo taken 
of the quadrant, that it fhould not alter its adjuft- 
ment between the morning and evening altitudes. 
The latitude of the place of obfervation, at 
gaspee, I determined, as accurately as poffible, by 
feveral meridian altitudes of the Sun, taken in an 
artificial horizon, with the aforementioned qua- 
drant ; the error of adjuftnrent being moft ac- 
curately obtained by different methods. The mean 
refultof the whole (15 of which agreed one with the 
other to 6 or 7 feconds) 1 found to be 48° 47' 32". 
The variation of the needle, by repeated trials dif- 
ferent ways, I found 1 6° 30 Weft; one of the 
meridian altitudes 1 infert, to fhew the method 1 ufed. 
A a z 
1 5th May, 
