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The Account of a 
Dover Castle. 
Paddlesworth ; about 400 feet from the station of 1787. 
This new spot was selected, because Hardres Steeple is not 
visible from the old station. 
Waldershare ; on the Belvidere in the Earl of Guilford’s 
Park. 
On Ringswold Steeple. 
On a sand hill near the sea shore, between Deal and Rams- 
gate : this station is denominated Shore. 
Near Mount Pleasant House, Isle of Thanet. 
On a rising ground near Wingham. 
On Chislet Steeple. 
In Beverley Park , near Canterbury. 
On Upper Hardres Steeple. 
art. hi. Triangles for determining the Distances of the Stations. 
♦ 
As the station on the Keep of Dover Castle, in 1 787, was directly 
over the steps of the Turret, a new point was chosen about 6 \ 
feet from the former, where the instrument could stand conve- 
niently: this new point is about 2,8 feet farther from Folk- 
stone Turnpike, and 1 foot farther from Paddlesworth, than 
the point marking the old station. 
From General Roy’s Account of the Trigonometrical Survey 
in 1787, we have 
Dover Castle from FolkstoneTurnpike 31554,6'ij.^ 
from Paddlesworth 42561,2/ 
Now, augmenting those distances in the proportion of 141747 
to 141753 (see Phil. Trans. Vol. LXXX, p. 595, and the Vol. 
