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the cities of Minsk and Jassy. The twelfth meridian is
situated 1m. 14s. to the west of the Academy of Sciences, in
St. Petersburg, and the distance from Kiew is about the
same. It is not necessary to continue the enumeration of the
other meridians to the east by intervals of 10 minutes, but
I will mention that Moscow is situated _2h. 30m. 17s._ to
the east of Greenwich, and in consequence the system would
be convenient with regard to this city.

If we pass to the west of Greenwich, we will find that the
first meridian west touches the little town of Almeria, in
the south of Spain, which country extends to equal distances
on both sides of this meridian, east and west, and the
situation of Portugal is the same with regard to the third
meridian west.

Then, in all the towns and localities given above, of which
the greater part are of some importance, the local time
coincides so closely with times differing from the Greenwich
time, by whole multiples of 10 minutes, that there is no
reason to fear any real inconvenience if these times were
taken to regulate local reckonings. If the different
countries in Europe should decide to adopt the system which
I have explained, the following system of normal times
would, perhaps, be found convenient:

EAST OF GREENWICH.

1st Meridian, France.
2d " Holland and Belgium.
3d " Switzerland.
4th " Norway, (and Western Germany.)
5th " Denmark, Germany, and Italy.
6th " Sweden and Austria.
7th " Eastern Germany.
8th " Hungary.
9th " Poland and Greece.
10th " Finland, Roumania, and Bulgaria,
11th " European Turkey.
12th " Western Russia.

WEST OF GREENWICH.

1st Meridian, Spain.
3d " Portugal.

It is, however, not at all necessary that each country
should adopt a single civil time for the whole of its
territory. If several normal times should be adopted, it is
still possible to use the system, provided only the several
times differ from Greenwich time by 10 minutes, 20 minutes,
&c.; but it would be necessary that the clocks should
indicate the times adopted with great precisi