3 8 4 
HISTORY OF MAURITIUS. 
“ The precise quantity of the obliquity of the Ecliptic being of the greatest im¬ 
portance in astronomy, I have observed the same solstical distances, with a sector 
of a radius of six feet, verified by the means of the stars (3 of the Crow and of the 
Whale. These are as follows: 
Distances of the north¬ 
ern Extremity of the 
Sun from the Zenith. 
Distances of the 
Sun from the 
Tropic. 
Distances of the Zenith 
from the northern Ex¬ 
tremity of the Sun in 
the Tropic. 
753*— -J une 20 
43 
5 2 
33>3 
O 
13.4 
0 
43 
5 2 
46,7 
21 
43 
5 2 
44,1 
O 
0,0 
43 
5 2 
44,i 
22 
43 
5 2 
35>i 
O 
11,2 
43 
5 2 
46,3 
2 3 
43 
5 1 
5 8 >4 
O 
47 > 6 
43 
5 2 
46,0 
24 
43 
51 
2,8 
1 
48,6 
43 
5 2 
5U4 
2 5 
43 
49 
34,o 
3 
14,2 
43 
5 2 
48,2 
26 
43 
47 
40,8 
5 
4,7 
43 
5 2 
45,5 
Medium 
- 
43 
5 2 
46,9 
- 1 753- — : Dec* 2 3 
3 
1 
W» l 
0 
43,3 
3 
2 
0,4 
24 
3 
0 
i5»4 
1 
46,6 
3 
2 
2,0 
58,1 
2 5 
2 
58 
39>5 
3 
18,6 
3 
1 
27 
2 
54 
10,6 
7 
47,2 
3 
1 
57,8 
Medium 
59> 6 
“ Making the same reductions of these two distances as of the preceding ones, 
the obliquity of the Ecliptic is found to be 23 0 28 ' 15 ", 6 , and the elevation of the 
Pole 20 0 9 ' 45 ", 8 . 
“ The latitude of the place then which I have observed, may be determined to 
be 20 0 9 ' 42 ",J, and in referring it to the portal of the new parish church of Port 
Louis in the Isle of France, 20 ° 9 ' 45 ". 
u Art. 8 . Observations on the length of the pendulum with seconds, at the Isle 
of France.” 
• “ The observations of the month of December were made in the negative part of the limb of 
every instrument, in order to get the interval of the Tropics; independently of the verification of 
the axes of the telescopes.” 
