The description and uses of Barston's new-invented universal astronomical quadrant which appears from authentick certificates transmitted to the Right Honourable the Lords of the Admiralty, to excel all others in navigation; and from repeated experiments of able astronomers, &c. to be more serviceable in astronomy, surveying of land, and dialling, than any other hitherto Invented

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