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'''"Alexander Bryant" is listed as Alexander Bryan in the Journal'''<br>

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Sun, Janurary 8, 1764
from the journal: "Fixed on the house of Mr. John Harland's (about 31 miles West of Philadelphia) to bring our instruments to."
However, it appears that they actually returned to Philidelphia on the 9th to get the observatory and tools and then returned to the Harlands on the 14th where they "set up the sector in his Garden (inclosed in a tent), and in the Evening brought the Instruments into the Meridian, and took the following observations..."

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"By February..." February 28th, 1764

"In March a Company of Axmen...clear a Visto..." March 17- April 12, 1764

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diagram "Alexander Bryant" is listed as Alexander Bryan in the Journal