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The Use of the Globe, 5

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q ^ 111s j one Half of the Globe is projected0sle Side of the Plane, and the other

Half

tyejj.' s he arduous Task was performed in Lapland by( he Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier, Maupertuis ,tyit f Outhier, and M. Celsius of Upsal. They fatthe 0 Qr , Stockholm, and from thence 'for the Bottom ofPh of Bothnia. Being arrived at Tornea, theyiff ^ C ’ r W ork ; for fr° m thence they fat out, July 6, •

to rec °nnoitre the Country, of which I have here PlateV54 r Map, by which the Affair is made easy to LXVII,ttra-nd.

ta^g' -^fter twelve Hours Voyage up the River, theyl he j/° the Hamlet Korpykila , and from thence through° re ^ they went on Foot to the steep Mountainfirs). ,d tyhofe Summit (a bare Rock) they made theirFætlmr U p the River they met with an-H ic high Mountain called Avasaxa, on the Top ofV they built a Signal. They then went up theX snglio, and crossed a Morass to the great Moun-'^xss arr ilakero, where they built another Signal.

^ ence they returned back again, and in theirf aiij Cr ofled the Forest to another very steep Moun-kfw a h’d Cuitaperi, which afforded a very fair Prof-j, 0 a h the rest.

to V' ^ftcr this they went some to one Part and some! '% l0thcr , and built Signals on the Summits of othertea r stains, yj z , Kakama, Puttings Niemi, and Kittls ,the v y Pillage Petto. Then taking the Angles which p; 0 . <Rays made, connecting the several Signals bytyrant 0 f two Feet Radius, furnished with a Mi-t? er ’ they constituted a Heptagonal Figure T C A P* extending from the Tower of the Church of

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j, M J T, to Kittis at Q.

■Jettg "^nd because the Truth of their Work may ther a PP ear , I shall here set before the Reader thethe a ^ the Angles, of which the several Angles ofe Ptagon did consist, viz.

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