I should have said the Great Theodolite is the theodolite commissioned by
the East India Company from Cary, after Ramsden's for the Ordnance Survey.
It was captured by the Piemontaise, landed at Mauritius, and forwarded to
Madras for Lambton.
Andrew Cook
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