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172 in question. How well they have merited that, degree of confidence is left to the impartial world to determine. To return again to Mr. Maskelyne's account: he, as I think has been already shown, having said and done every thing in his power to the dishonour and discouragement of my Invention, scruples not to sum up his opinion of it in the following terms:

'That Mr. Harrison's Watch cannot be depended upon to keep the Longitude within a degree, in a West India voyage for six weeks, nor to keep the Longitude within half a degree for more than a fortnight, and then it must be kept in a place