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Gentleman's Magazine 1748 p.206
sun's rise, when our view is generally most extended, because of the fewer vapours, I effected it by the time I proposed, and found, to my vast surprise, a great variation from what geographers have made the meridian of Annan and Edinburgh.- I have constructed the plan of the road, and laid down the meridian, with the proper longitudes, of Criffel and Bees-head.- You will perceive from the plan what pains I have taken in this survey, in laying down mountains, rivers, villages, &c.-
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