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XXIV. A Catalogue of nearly all the principal fixed Stars be - 
tween the zenith of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, and the 
South Pole, reduced to the ist. of January, 1824. By the 
Rev. Fearon Fallows, M. A. F.R.S. 
Read Feb. 2 6 , 1824. 
The following Catalogue of nearly all the principal fixed 
stars in the southern hemisphere, from the zenith of Cape 
Town to the South Pole, was deduced from observations made 
during the latter part of 1822 and the beginning of the pre- 
sent year. Its pretensions to accuracy will be easily esti- 
mated by stating the circumstances under which the obser- 
vations were taken, the respective merits of the instruments 
used, and the attention, on the part of the observer, to do 
every justice to the means placed in his power. Immediately 
after my arrival in this colony (at the end of 1821,) I lost 
no time in personally examining different parts of the coun- 
try, for the purpose of selecting one, which might be deemed 
eligible as a site for the intended Observatory about to be 
erected here. After many fruitless endeavours to accomplish 
the object of my wishes, I had the good fortune, at length, to 
find a situation in the vicinity of Cape Town, which, upon the 
whole, possessed more local advantages than any I had seen 
elsewhere. My Report, containing a description of this site, 
and a Map of the surrounding country, was forwarded to My 
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in the month of 
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