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Second Site: 27° 37' 35" N 77° 13' 05" E
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Second Prologue.
Once complete engine is formed by two differently incomplete parts which combined provide total reference.
At one moment in the year the sun shines through a hole in the wall on to a calibrated arc.
The stone dish is slotted with figures and shadow.
The positions and altitudes of heavenly bodies maybe gauged with this engine.
Some steps ascend past markings to a platform.
The central pillars are five feet three inches in diameter.
On the East face are inscribed two quadrants of twenty-feet radius.
The plants will steal this engine when we have gone.
The shadow is cast North/South at noon by an iron pin.
A shadow is cast to the East after noon.
These steps are worn to a ramp and lead nowhere.
All the lead calibrations are warm to the touch.
It is only necessary to engrave a scale of the tangents along the rim to obtain a direct reading of the declination.
Second Memory.
The lead calibrations are poisonous to the touch.
This is the North pointer engine.
The rim of each hemisphere is a horizon divided into degrees and minutes.
Here is a room to divide the sun like an orange.
Sighting bars were placed in the slots within the chamber, but none remain now.
The sound of insects here studs the night like a thousand fizzing stars.
Access by observers to each engine is gained by an imperfection which differs from one to another.
These structures are made in receipt of starlight.
Seven of the eight rings indicate signs.
Third Memory.
Fourth Memory.
I Have Observed And Measured For Seven Years
I have observed and measured for seven years.
Fifth Memory.
There are four of these arcs, two in each chamber.
These are instruments fuelled by shadow, and engines propelled by the sliding of the skies.
The stars are ranged across the inner shell of a vast hollow sphere in which hung the earth.
All the gardens will concur. Here is the mixed engine.
I will build other gardens, other engines.
And the light falls on the circular arcs.
Beneath this circle is an arc of masonry steps for the convenience of observers.
Threads can be pegged to the centre of each quadrant and semicircle to enable observation.
Here is a huge vertical right-angled triangle made of stone.
These arcs are also accessible by numerous flights of stairs.
We are closer to the sun now.
On the West face is described a semicircle of nineteen-feet, ten-inch radius.
Into this chamber no ray of light can find its way except through two small squares high in the South wall.
The movement of the engines produces a scent.
Sixth Memory.
Pointing towards the pole an iron pin is fixed at right angles to the centre of a dial.
Some of the calibrations are now submerged beneath the ground and cannot be read.
This room is a lidless drum.
Seventh Memory.
Near the bottom of the wall facing the South side of the eastern hemisphere there is a hole.
There are arcs made of marble which are calibrated with inlaid lead in degrees and minutes.
I have seen charts sent from Portugal but they are flawed and full of error.
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