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worth while to state, that we took upwards of two hundred lunar observations[1], with carefully adjusted sextants, and it may therefore be fairly inferred, that the longitude thence deduced, does not deviate far from the truth.
- ↑ By the Sun and Moon,—by Jupiter and Venus to the westward, and by Saturn to the eastward,—by Marcab and Fomalhaut to the westward,—and by Pollux, Aldebaran, and a Arietb to the eastward, of the Moon; taken between October 18th and November 19th.
