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low country Maiden-pap, but by the neighbouring in® 
habitants, Schehallien; which, I have hnce been in^ 
formed, fignifies in the Erfe language, Gonftant Storm : 
a name well adapted to the appearance which it fo fre*« 
quently exhibits to thofe who live near it, by the clouds 
and mills which ufually crown its fummit. It had, more- 
over, the advantage, by its lleepnefs, of having but a 
fmall bafe from North to South; which circumllance, 
at the fame time that it increafes the effedl of attrac- 
tion, brings the two llations on the North and South 
lides of the hill, at which the fum of the two contrary 
attradlions is to be found by the experiment, nearer to- 
gether; fo that the necelfary allowance of the number 
of feconds, for the difference of latitude due to the mea- 
fured horizontal diftance of the two llations in the direc- 
tion of the meridian, would be very fmall, and confe- 
quently not fubjedl to fenlible error from any probable 
uncertainty of the length of a degree of latitude in this 
parallel. For thefe reafons the mountain Schehallien 
was chofen, in preference to all others, for the fcene of 
the intended operations ; and it was concluded to make 
the experiment in the fummer of the year 1774. 
It was forefeen, that this experiment would be at- 
tended with conliderable expence, and fuch as might ea-^ 
lily have exceeded the common funds of the Royal So-^ 
ciety, without fome extraordinary alTillance, The bounty 
of his Majelly, our Patron, happily removed this diffi- 
culty. At the humble requell of the Society, his Ma- 
ielly had been gracioully pleafed to grant a verv ample 
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