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           Itcouldbeseenthatthereexisted,inroundnumbers,adifferenceoffivehoursbetweenthemeridianofWashingtonandthatofLincolnIsland,thatistosay,itwasmiddayinLincolnIslandwhenitwasalreadyfiveo’clockintheeveninginWashington.Nowthesun,initsapparentmovementroundtheearth,traversesonedegreeinfourminutes,orfifteendegreesanhour.Fifteendegreesmultipliedbyfivehoursgiveseventy-fivedegrees.

           Then,sinceWashingtonis77deg3’11"asmuchastosayseventy-sevendegreescountedfromthemeridianofGreenwichwhichtheAmericanstakefortheirstarting-pointforlongitudesconcurrentlywiththeEnglishitfollowedthattheislandmustbesituatedseventy-sevenandseventy-fivedegreeswestofthemeridianofGreenwich,thatistosay,onthehundredandfifty-seconddegreeofwestlongitude.

           CyrusHardingannouncedthisresulttohiscompanions,andtakingintoconsiderationerrorsofobservation,ashehaddoneforthelatitude,hebelievedhecouldpositivelyaffirmthatthepositionofLincolnIslandwasbetweenthethirty-fifthandthethirty-seventhparallel,andbetweenthehundredandfiftiethandthehundredandfifty-fifthmeridiantothewestofthemeridianofGreenwich.

           Thepossiblefaultwhichheattributedtoerrorsintheobservationwas,itmaybeseen,offivedegreesonbothsides,which,atsixtymilestoadegree,wouldgiveanerrorofthreehundredmilesinlatitudeandlongitudefortheexactposition.

           Butthiserrorwouldnotinfluencethedeterminationwhichitwasnecessarytotake

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