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 1 1,2|         your watch is set by the meridian of that town, which is almost
 2 1,3|       day would exactly pass the meridian and the point of the sky
 3 1,3|      thus obtained an invariable meridian for his ulterior operations. ~
 4 1,3|   seconds, the sun will pass the meridian just at midday by the clocks.
 5 1,3|        passing of the sun at the meridian, he would obtain the position
 6 1,3|        moment when it passed the meridian below the pole, which would
 7 1,4|    moment the sun would pass the meridian. ~It was decided that Sunday
 8 1,4|        passage of the sun at the meridian of the island, without an
 9 1,4|        is to say its passing the meridian of the island or, in other
10 1,4|        of five hours between the meridian of Washington and that of
11 1,4|         degrees counted from the meridian of Greenwich which the Americans
12 1,4| seventy-five degrees west of the meridian of Greenwich, that is to
13 1,4|          hundred and fifty-fifth meridian to the west of the meridian
14 1,4|      meridian to the west of the meridian of Greenwich. ~The possible