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 the Board of Longitude, excited at its appearaneeappearance [sic] considerable attention. The eircumstaneccircumstance [sic] of the Government providing instruments and means of transport for the purpose of these inquiries, placed at Captain Sabine's disposal means superior to those which amateurs can generally afford, whilst the industry with which he availed himself of these opportunities, enabled him to bring home multitudes of observations from situations rarely visited with such instruments, and for suehsuch [sic] purposes.

The remarkable agreement with each other, which was found to exist amongst each class of observations, was as unexpected by those most conversant with the respective processes, as it was creditable to one who had devoted but a few years to the subject, and who, in the course of those voyages, used some of the instruments for the first time in his life.

This accordance amongst the results was such, that naval officers of the greatest experience, confessed themselves unable to take such lunars; whilst other observers, long versed in the use of the transit instrument, avowed their inability to take suehsuch [sic] transits. Those who were conversant with pendulums, were at a loss how to make, even under more favourable eireumstanccscircumstances [sic], similarly