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An Account of the Trigonometrical Survey, carried on by order of the Master General of his Majesty's Ordnance, in the Years 1800, 1801, 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808, and 1809. By Lieutenant-Colonel William Mudge, of the Royal Artillery, F.R.S. and Captain Thomas Colby, of the Royal Engineers. Vol. III. large 4to. pp. xvi. 382, with 14 Plates. Price 21. 2s. Faden. 1811. CONSIDERING, as we have always done, the operations con * nected with the Trigonometrical Survey of England and Wales, as highly curious and interesting in the detail, and extremely important in their results, it is with much satisfaction that we have traced their progress, as it has been recorded in the Philosophical Transactions, and in the separate volumes published by Mr. Faden. In these volumes, of which we gave a pretty copious account near the commencement of our critical labours, were detailed those operations which constituted a survey of the southern coast of England, and of as much of the interior of the country as lies between it and the parallels of Oxford and Bristol. They included, likewise, accurate and scientific descriptions of the instruments employed (especially of the admirable zenith sector begun by Ramsden and finished by Berge), a developement of the principles requisite in determining the figure of the earth, from the measurement of degrees in different latitudes, &c.—and some highly valuable observations and rules relative to terrestrial refraction. The volume now before us contains an immense mass of topographical matter, such as, in conjunction with what has been before published in the first two volumes, comprizes the trigonometrical survey of nearly all England, the whole of Wales, and part of Scotland. It is divided into six sections, of which VOL. VIII, * Ecl. Rev. Vol. I. pp. 128, 199. we cannot give a more succinct and perspicuous account than is presented in the volume itself. • The first section contains the angles observed with the large theodolite, as well as the angles of elevation or depression at the several stations, and also the situations of those stations. The second section contains a short account of the measurement of a new base line on Rhuddlan Marsh, near St. Asaph, in North Wales, with the reduction of that base, and the calculation of the sides of the principal triangles. Of these triangles, those first given are made to depend on the side joining the stations Bow Brickhill and Lilleyhoe, and Lilleyhoe and Leddington, extending from thence to the north of Cambridgeshire, the last stations being Littleport in that county, and Brandon Warren, near Brandon in Suffolk. The triangles running up from Arbury Hill to Clifton Beacon, in Yorkshire, as given in the Philosophical Transactions for 1803, result from observations made immediately after the operations in Cambridgeshire ceased. Other triangles, also resulting from observations made in the same season, and uniting with the former on the eastern side, are given in this section. In this series, two stations will be found, named Crosswell Bishop and Bottesford. These were chosen to connect the triangles with the extremities of a base-line then intended to be measured, but since relinquished, Misterton Carr, in the north of Lincolnshire, proving to be a more proper spot for that operation: however, the triangles depending on these stations are given, many churches and objects of note having been observed from them, and their situations thereby ascertained. The junction between the triangles of this series, and those in Cambridgeshire, is effected by intermediate spires, among which Souldrope is the principal. The triangles next in order, are those which proceed from a base-line recently measured on Rhuddlan Marsh, branching off in all directions. A series extends from this base to Anglesea, thence, by Snowdon, down the western coast of Wales, by Cardigan Bay, joining, near Aberystwith, a series of triangles extending over South Wales, and proceeding from the triangles in Gloucestershire, along the borders of the Severn and Bristol Channel, to St. David's Head, and thence up to this just mentioned point of junction. Another series, uniting with the former, proceeds northward from Rhuddlan Marsli, and joins the southern triangles in Glamorganshire, while, from the western side of this series, triangles unite with those in -the central part of England. From this new base, triangles branch out towards the east, and unite with those proceeding westward from Misterton Carr, mutually verifying the sides of each series. Triangles are also carried on from this base through Lancashire, Cumberland, and Westmoreland, into Scotland, and uniting with another series, extending from Clifton Beacon, through Yorkshire and Northumberland, and the east, part of Scotland, as far as the northern side of the Frith of Forth. The computed length of the base-line on Rhuddlan Marsh, derived from the base-line on Hounslow Heath, differs only one foot from the length (24514-26 feet) obtained by actual measurement; and the base on Misterton Carr, used in the series of triangles connecting it with Rhuddlan Marsh, gives a result equally consistent. Section third, contains the secondary triangles formed by the intersecMon of church steeples, and other remarkable objects, from the principal |