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Mr. pigott’s Agronomical Obfervations 
XI. Agronomical Obfervations made in the Auftrian Ne- 
therlands in 1772 and 1773. By Nathanael Pigott, 
Ilf quire , F. R. S. Foreign Member of the Academies of 
Bruflels and Caen. In a Letter to the Reverend Nevil 
Mafkelyne, Aflronomer Royal, F. R. S. 
TO THE REV. NEVIL M \SKELYNE. 
u 17 ■» r CTP Louvain, 
rvL\ . blKj Auguft n, 1775. 
R. Dec. 9, T RECEIVED, about a month ago, the favour 
1 775* I c , , ^ 1 . 
or your letter, and return you many thanks 
for the Greenwich obfervations, which you were fo 
obliging to fend me. I wait, with impatience, the pub- 
lication of your journey into Scotland, which mull he 
very curious and interefting. I beg of you, sir, to 
prelent my refpe&s to the Royal Society, with the in- 
clofed aftronomical obfervations, which 1 have contracted 
as much as I well could, confidently with a view of af- 
fording means to verify them, or rectify any miitake 
which, by inadvertency, may have crept in. I fliall only 
add a fhort account of the inftruments I ufed, and the 
elements I employed in the calculations, that a proper 
judgement may be formed, how far thefe obfervations 
may be depended upon. 
The meridian altitudes were taken with a quadrant 
one foot radius made by Mr. bird, very fteadily fixed; 
free from any communication with the floor, and well 
placed in the plane of the meridian. 
1 Repeated 
