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Excerpt from Memoirs of a Trait in the Character of George III, of These United Kingdoms: Authenticated by Official Papers and Private Letters in Possession of the Author; With an Appendix of Illustrative Tracts, &C., Abridge From the Original Work in Manuscript
An obvious question arises here - for supposing Dr. Maskelyne had found the Longitude of Barbadoes and all the Islands in the route as accurately as was done by the Timekeeper, yet as he was not the inventor of the Lunar method, that honour belonging to Meran, a Frenchman, with whom Professor Mayer subsequently divided it, how could he claim the reward? Notwithstanding this moot point, he spoke as if he had received assurances from one or more of the Commissioners to that effect: and probably Dr. Shepherd who introduced him to John Harrison could have informed as better on the subject. But there is no intimation that Dr. Halley, the Abbe de la Caille, and Captain Campbell, who exerted themselves assiduously to accomplish the same object, ever formed ex pectations of achieving the reward. Dr. Maskelyne was the only astrono mer, at sea, who, like Ixion, grasped a treasure in nubibus, only to catch a Tartar.
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