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Of the reward which had been offered, three thousand pounds were paid to the widow of Mayer, and three thousand pounds to the celebrated mathematician Euler for having invented the methods used by Mayer in the construction of his tables. The issue of the Nautical Ephemeris was intrusted to Dr. Maskelyne. Like other publications of this sort this ephemeris has gradually increased in volume.
Before he left Madras he married Miss Maskelyne. Never did a man return to his native land under more auspicious conditions who had gone thence under conditions so inauspicious.
Maskelyne estimated the voyage would take about two years, and that a sum of ten shillings and six pence per day would be a reasonable allowance for expenses, together with a gratuity the amount of which was to be settled hereafter.
Of course, if I had suggested it, she would have done it as easily as she cut out the tender infants for the 'cute gentleman behind me; so, to adopt the language of Miss Fay's fellow-citizen, I "bit in my breath and swallered it down." I adopted the course Mr. Maskelyne told me he did with the Davenports, sat with my eyes open and my mouth shut.
And I daresay you would like to know all about the affair of the fishing rod, and the fish-hooks, and the cook next door which was amusing from some points of view, though not perhaps the cook's but there really is no time even for that. The only thing that there's time to tell about is the Adventure of Maskelyne and Cooke's, and the Unexpected Apparition which is also the beginning of the end.
The first step in his cure was the public swallowing by a conjurer of a board of wood, 'about the size of a barrel-stave, twice as wide across as his mouth. The account is amusing, and deserves the attention of Mr. Neville Maskelyne. The same conjurer had previously swallowed a cradle! The real object of these preliminary feats, however performed, is, probably, to inspire faith, which Dr.
Maskelyne found, on washing off the ink, that at first "the pencil-marks became much plainer than before, and even when as much of the ink-stain as possible was removed, the pencil still runs through the ink line in unbroken, even continuity." These points established, Mr.
Helena, where Kendal's watch was found to differ by about two miles from the observations of Mason and Dixon at the Cape and those of Maskelyne at St. Helena, he proceeded to Ascension, where he obtained a good supply of fresh turtle, and then to Fernando de Noronho, fixing the position as 3 degrees 50 minutes South, 32 degrees 34 minutes West, and crossed the line on 11th June.
Full instructions were also given to the two observers, and a list of the fixed stars to be observed was drawn up by Mr. Maskelyne. The order to receive Mr. Green and Mr. Banks and party was issued on 22nd July, "for victuals only" i.e., they were to be supplied with the same as the rest of the ship's company whilst on board. The members of Banks's party were: Dr.
They were not railway children to begin with. I don't suppose they had ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cook's, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud's.
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