Greenwich

Tammy says latitude is the easy one.

Longitude is harder because it depends on knowing the exact time and comparing it with the time at a fixed place, which by tradition is Greenwich, England, Greenwich Mean Time.

A watch or a timekeeping device is needed for this.

And Tammy cannot find her watch.

There's a big music venue.

So the O2 is in Greenwich in London,

we can put that up.

It

CHAPTER I. ELIZABETH'S MOTHER.

Travellers, in ascending the Thames by the steamboat from Rotterdam, on their return from an excursion to the Rhine, have often their attention strongly attracted by what appears to be a splendid palace on the banks of the river at greenwich the edifice is not a palace however but a hospital or rather a retreat where the worn-out maimed and crippled veterans of the english navy spend the remnant of their days in comfort and peace on pensions allowed them by the government in whose service they have spent their strength or lost their limbs The magnificent buildings of the hospital stand on level land near the river.

Behind them there is a beautiful park, which extends over the undulating and rising ground in the rear, and on the summit of one of the eminences there is the famous Greenwich Observatory, on the precision of whose quadrants and micrometers depend those calculations by which the navigation of the world is guided.

The most unconcerned and careless spectator is interested in the manner in which the ships which throng the river all the way from Greenwich to London take their time from this observatory before setting sail for distant seas.

From the top of a cupola surmounting the edifice a slender pole ascends, with a black ball upon it, so constructed as to slide up and down for a few feet upon the pole.

When the hour of 12 M. approaches, the ball slowly rises to within a few inches of the top warning the shipmasters in the river to be ready with their chronometers to observe and note the precise instant of its fall when a few seconds only remain of the time the ball ascends the remainder of the distance by a very deliberate motion and then drops suddenly when the instant arrives the ships depart on their several destinations and for months afterward when thousands of miles away they depend for their safety in dark and stormy nights and among dangerous reefs and rocky shores on the nice approximation to correctness in the note of time which this descending ball had given them This is Greenwich, as it exists at the present day.

At the time when the events occurred which are to be related in this narrative, it was most known on account of a royal palace which was situated there.

This palace was the residence of the then Queen Consort of England.

I was over in England a couple of years ago, and we went through the—I'm going to get this wrong, so beg forgiveness for my friends in Great Britain.

But we were down in Greenwich, and we went to the naval museum they had.

And as you can imagine, it's Great Britain, so the history is just incredible.

And they actually had a miniature guillotine.