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XXX. AJlronomical Obfervations made in the Auftrian 
Netherlands in the Tears 1773, 1774, an d [ 775 * By 
Nathaniel Pigott, E/q. F. R. S. Foreign Member of the. 
Academies of Brufiels and Caen, and Correspondent of 
the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris* 
TO THE REV. DR. MASKELYNE* 
REV. SIR, 
Read May 7, ^ a ' HE inclofed obfervations are a fequel to 
thofe I communicated to you in 1775, 
and which are printed in the LXVIth vol. of Phil. Tranf. 
for the year 1776. 
Louvain being a very confiderable and the only uni- 
verlity in the Auftrian Netherlands, and upon that ac- 
count a town of very great note, I was particularly de- 
lirous of fettling its longitude and latitude with all the 
accuracy my lituation and time would admit of; and the 
more fo, that I believe myfelf to be the fir ft perfon who 
ever made any aftronomical obfervations in that place,. 
and. 
