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pofe to thew how high the errors can ever arik and
how they may, if it is thought needful, be nearly
ellimated and coerce-led.

Write down, in a vacant (pace at the bottom of

the map, a table of the errors of equidiftant parallela,
as from five degrees to five degrees of she whole lati-
Code ; and having taken the mean crrors, and dimi-
ndhcd them in the ratio of radius to thc line of the
mean inclination of the line of diflance to the met:-
dian, you fhall find the correEtion required: remem-
bering only to diftinguifh the dillance into its pat
that lie within and without the fphere, and taking
the difference of the correfpondent errors, in deft!l
and in excel,.
But it was thought needlefs to add any examples;
as, from what has been faid, the intelligent reader
will readily fee the ofe of fuels a table ; and chiefly
as, whenever exaetnefs is required, it will be more
proper, and indeed more expeditious, to comptse
thc diftances of places by the following canon.

Multiply the produfl of Me refines of tbe two given

latitudes by the /rare of tbe fine of h,all the difference
of longitude; and to this produll add the Aware vi-
rtu fine of half the difference of the lattrude, tbe
fquare root of the fun, fball be tte fine if half the are
of a great circle between the two places poen.

Thus, if we arc to find the true dillance fnoea

one angle of our map to thc oppolite, that is, ken
5 to Q, the operation will be as follows:

L. fm.

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