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for Eboli, and after about nine miles of gentle descent, though with occasional ascents—the river in such points cutting through a deep bed—the grand range of mural precipices of Monte Alburno come once more to my view on the left, distinct and glorious with the rosy glow of the declining sun slanting upon the piled-up beds, and contrasting vividly their colour, with that of the purple sea that closes the horizon. Servitello and Paglietta are perched high amongst the crags also to my left. I had not seen the sun for days, and I was just enabled to catch an observation of his disc at setting, over the horizon from a point of the road a mile from Eboli (February 26), latitude north 40° 35', longitude east 15° 4'.

which sufficiently well confirms the results obtained to-day by intersections.

At the point where this observation was made barometer reads 29·64 inches, thermo. 48° Fahr., at 5h 55m Naples mean time; and the reduced level is 407·9 feet above the sea. I am here distant nearly two miles from the bed of the

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