necessary to run a careful leveling COMMISSION OF ECUADOR. the observatory at Quito. This observatory was built survey from one of them to the sea. The programme BY JACQUES BOYER, by the government of Ecuador a few years ago but is At its meeting at Stuttgart, in 1898, the Interna- yet unprovided… … became neces- eighteenth cen- Base. sary to abandon tury. t h e northern The _ United part of the proposed arc and to seek a new terminal exact triangulation, and a study of the native tribes, States offered to perform the work if France, to which astronomical station and a new base in Ecuador. and…
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