AN AMERICAN TRANSIT, signed on the silvered dial W & L.E. Gurley, Troy, N.Y., the telescope with rack and pinion focusing, cross-wire adjustment, the axis with silvered vertical circle, the bubble-level suspended beneath the telescope, raised on turn A-frames, over the horizontal plate, with compass-box, silvered dial, edge-bar needle, level and cross-bubble; the silvered horizontal circle with vernier, tangent-screw fine adjustment and clamp, on tripod mounting in case with trade label--14in. (35.5cm) high

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AN AMERICAN TRANSIT, signed on the silvered dial W & L.E. Gurley, Troy, N.Y., the telescope with rack and pinion focusing, cross-wire adjustment, the axis with silvered vertical circle, the bubble-level suspended beneath the telescope, raised on turn A-frames, over the horizontal plate, with compass-box, silvered dial, edge-bar needle, level and cross-bubble; the silvered horizontal circle with vernier, tangent-screw fine adjustment and clamp, on tripod mounting in case with trade label--14in. (35.5cm) high

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