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Title: On the Rate of Travelling, as Performed by Camels; And Its Application, as a Scale, to the Purposes of Geography. By James Rennell, Esq. F. R. S.
Year: 1791 (1790s)
Authors: Rennell, J.
Subjects: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Publisher: Royal Society of London

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fuch as we havejuft related, and which appear to be fufceptible of greater accu-racy than thofe made in detail. But it will, neverthelefs, beproper to give the refults, and to make fome remarks onthem; if be only to prevent any perfon in future from found-in? a calculation on them. Mr. Carmichael counted the double fteps, or rather thereturn of the fame foot, of a camel on which he rode, for anhour together, on 20 different days; at times when, from thenature of the ground, he thought the greateft variation tookplace, in the rate of motion. He found the greateft number offteps to be 2420, the leaft 2086; and the mean of the whole20 hours9 was 2200. Mr. Holford reckoned the greateft2240, leaft 2060; mean 2150. They both report the doubleftep to be 5 feet and an half. The refult of the former accountis 2,29 Britifh miles per hour; of the latter 2,24; and eachallowed his diftance accordingly, in his journal: though nothingis more certain than that their computed diftances fall very fhort
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Fhc7o$.Tran$. Vol. LXXXI. Tah III, p. 144 Sketch of the9UTES acrofs theBJESEM Between Aleppo and Bufsorali.

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