The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . THE CARSHAI/TON TRANSIT. THE OBSERVATORY OF A. K. BARCLAY, ESQ. 685 The piers are of brick, built in cement, and havetheir foundations about 3 ft. below the floor of theobservatory. The suppo
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . THE CARSHAI/TON TRANSIT. THE OBSERVATORY OF A. K. BARCLAY, ESQ. 685 The piers are of brick, built in cement, and havetheir foundations about 3 ft. below the floor of theobservatory. The support for the clock is formed oftwo deals screwed together in the form of the letterT, the lower end of which is buried about 4 ft. in theground, having a spur in front to counteract itstendency to lean forward. This support answers itspurpose very well. Besides the instruments which are under cover ofthe observatory, there is in theopen ground a rude and strongequatorial-stand, carrying at pre-sent an achromatic of 9 in. aper-ture and 15 ft. focal length, boththe discs of which the object-glass is made being of Englishmanufacture. This telescope hashitherto been used for nothingbut mere star gazing. MR. SfMMSS THE OBSERVATOEY OF A. K. BARCLAY,ESQ., Mr. Barclays observatory is si-tuated on Bury Hill, near Dorking,in Surrey, at an elevation of 400 the sea; its approximate lon-gitude being lm. west, andlatitude 51° 13 40 north. It con-sists of an equatorial tower, with asmall transit-room adjoining thelower story. The revolving dome is an admira-ble specimen of the workmanshipof Messrs. Eansomes and May. Itis constructed of cast-iron curvedrafters, bolted into a trong curb of wood, filled in with 1^ in. deal, and coveredinternally with thin copper. It revolves upon three balls, in very shallow cast-iron channel plates. The transit-instrument is by Simms, and has a focal length of 42 in., theobject-glass being 2| in. in diameter. The clock is by
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