Schlagintweit, Hermann von; Schlagintweit, Adolf; Schlagintweit, Robert von: Results of a scientific mission to India and High Asia: undertaken between the years MDCCCLIV and MDCCCLVIII, by order of the court of directors of the hon. East India Company (Band 1): Astronomical determinations of latitudes and longitudes and magnetic observations: during a scientific mission to India and High Asia (Leipzig, 1861)

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astkonomical. determinations of latitudes and longitudes.

No. 43. Galle, in Ceyl6n.

Latitude North. Longitude East Green. Height.

6° 2' 30" 80° 10' 45" Little above the level of the sea.

This is the most important harbour of Ceylon for the Overland Route to India,
China, and Australia.1

Magnetic observations of Intensity were made 1857, May 2, in the native town,
north of the fort.

Meridian.

From low corresponding Altitudes of the Sun . . . 33° 25'-5.
1 Recently, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steamers go by way of Mauritius to Australia.