leadsmen sounding at the bow and stern, as well as at the two paddles, and the 'Lee' and 'Cruiser' stationed as pivots at the edges of the shoal.

Before my election (as Plumian Professor) there are various schemes on my quires for computation of transit corrections, &c. After Apr. 15th there are corrections for deficient wires, inequality of pivots, &c.

I also furnished Mr Sheepshanks with investigations regarding the form of the pivots of the Cape Circle.

An examination of the results of observations had made me dissatisfied with the bearings of the horizontal pivots in their Y's.

Mr Simms, at my request, changed the bearings in Y's for bearing in segments of circles, a construction which has worked admirably well in the pivots of the Transit Circle.

The fine points to be considered were the bearing of the men, the precision with which they turned the corners, the grace of the women, and the ease with which they swung around the pivots.

This Screw is supported at either end of the axis by pillars of hollow brass tube descending from the hoop, in the lower extremities of which are the holes in which the pivots of the axis revolve.

In this slight sketch we have neither magnified the crimes, nor sported with the weaknesses; all our aim has been to search out points or pivots upon which the reflective reader may turn; the result will depend on his own frame of mind.

His skin has a very deep tan; There's Rosy, the cash-girl, and Mame, who ties bundles, And Maggie, who works in the factory, tall; She's much in demand, for she "pivots so grand," She's really the belle of the hand-organ ball.

Although we do not presume to account for our own success, or to trace its maintenance through all the fluctuations of six yearsyet we are prone to believe that the economy of the plan, coupled with the spirit of curiosity which it is our aim to encourage,have been the prime movers of our fortunes, as they have been the pivots upon which we have performed our half-yearly revolutions.

In my last letter I pointed out two facts which are pivots.

Under the tent there is arranged a frame which pivots freely in apertures formed in the uprights that support both the tent and table.

They guide themselves by long and powerful poles fixed on pivots, and which act as rudders.

This consists of a steel axle, X, Y, Figs. 4 and 5, the pivots being conical and hardened.

This was done, following Foucault's plan, by allowing the pivots to rest on two inclined planes of glass, allowing the arrangement to come to rest, and filing away the lowest part of the disc; trying again, and so on, till it would rest in indifferent equilibrium.

A slight deviation causes a sound due to the rattling of the pivots in the sockets, the speed is very much diminished, and the pivots begin to wear.

A slight deviation causes a sound due to the rattling of the pivots in the sockets, the speed is very much diminished, and the pivots begin to wear.

In Foucault's apparatus oil was furnished to the pivots, through small holes running through the screws, by pressure of a column of mercury.

In this apparatus it was found sufficient to touch the pivots occasionally with a drop of oil.

I am inclined to think that the variations were due to changes in the friction of the pivots rather than to changes of pressure of the blast of air.

Such a periodic variation could only be caused by the influence of the frame or the pivots.

At right angles with one of these bars is fixed a divided ruler, through one point of which continually passes a third ruler, whose extremity pivots upon the point, A, of the first carriage.

For, you see, he is a pivotal man who cannot get away until others arrive to replace the pivots, and it is difficult to persuade him that all is for the best.

It was not long before Cheditafa came back with two policemen, all running, and then the men who lay in the street, spinning about as if moving on pivots, were seized and pulled apart.

For this purpose a long hempen rope was wound twice round the oaken roller in the oaken posts: the pivots were well smeared with pitch and tar: a bundle of tow and other tinder was laid close at hand, and all was ready.