Excerpt from Declinations of Fixed Stars Dear sir: After unexpected delay I have the honor to transmit, herewith, my report on the accuracy of the declinations adopted by the United States Commission in the latitude work of the Northern Boundary Survey. In doing this, permit me to thank you most cordially for the kind interest and generous support which you have throughout accorded to this undertaking. The sense of obligation is the more keenly felt, when I reflect upon the many imperfections and deficiencies of the work; but your intercourse with me has been uniformly such as to cause me to forget the debt, and leaves only the most pleasant recollections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.