At this place he obtained an indifferent meridian altitude which placed it in 16 degrees 40 minutes 18 seconds South.

The base-line of the second meridian crosses it about twenty-four miles north of its point of beginning, and the base-line of the third is a continuation of that of the second.

Its target was the atmosphere plant located 51 degrees north of the equator and 141 degrees west of the central meridian-southwest of a small crater which was the home of a town called Morris.

This peculiarity is described by Bishop Mant: "And goodly now the noon-tide hour, When from his high meridian tower