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											 DESCRIPTION 
                                        OF A NEW POCKET BOX SEXTANT,AND AN ARTIFICIAL HORIZON, BY THE 
                                        EDITOR
 
									Fig.11,
                                    plate 19, is a representation of a 
                                    very convenient pocket sextant, and contains 
                                    a material improvement on the reflecting 
                                    cross staff before described, see fig.4,
                                    plate 14. 
                                    In military operations, as well as 
                                    trigonometrical ones, it has been found of 
                                    very essential service. Ab a round brass box 
                                    three inches in diameter, and one inch deep. 
                                    AC is the index turning an index glass 
                                    within the box. a, a, are the two outside 
                                    ends of the screws that confine an horizon 
                                    glass also within the box. An angle is 
                                    observed by the sight being directed through 
                                    an hole in the side of the box about D, upon 
                                    and through the horizon glass and the second 
                                    opening at E, and the angle is read off to 
                                    one minute by the divided arc and nonius F, 
                                    G, H. By sliding a pin projecting on the 
                                    side of the box, a dark glass is brought 
                                    before the sight hole, not shewn in the 
                                    figure; by pushing the pin at b, a 
                                    dark screen for the sun is interposed 
                                    between the index and the horizon glasses. I 
                                    is an endless screw, sometimes applied to 
                                    give a very accurate motion, like the 
                                    tangent screw to the index of a sextant. Or 
                                    a racked arc and pinion may be applied at 
                                    about c, d, which I think in 
                                    some respects better. 
									[George Adams, 1797, 
                                    p.283]    |