TRANSIT INSTRUMENT

a telc-: require. scope, mounted on a horizontal axis,, means and free to move in the plane of the! central observer’s meridian, acro which it is; desired to note the transit of any object., staIt is almost superseded now by the: is to Transit or Meridian Circle, which, com the bining the functions of the transit; work. instrument and the mural circle, gives; either the declination of a star at the same time: as its right ascension. It carries on its; the axis two graduated circles, 2 or 3 ft. in. the diameter, one on each side and revolving | For with the telescope. Two other circles,. the firmly fixed to the piers, carry the read- - more ing microscopes and a pointer micro-> the scope, which replaces the metal pointer ' that of the mural. into currents TRANSKEIAN TERRITORIES, or: any KAFFRARIA name applied to region, voltage inhabited chiefly by Kaffirs, N. of the: make Kei R., Cape Prov., S. Africa (32° 30’ cables S., 28° E.); includes Griqualand East, in which the chief towns respectively are of Kokstad, Umtata, Butter worth, Port. 2,000 St. John. Surface is level near coast, as mountainous farther inland; watered | by St. John’s and other rivers; produces hand, timber, cereals, bananas, oranges, lemvolts ons; cattle, sheep, and horses raised. It was annexed to Cape Colony between this 1879 and 1894. Total area, 16,351 sq. For current TRANSLATION is the turning of The What is written (or spoken) in one lIaninvolved guage into another. To understand the these original and reproduce its sense exactly and is what is required of the ordinary station translator. But to rank as lit., t. must employ be more than a correct rendering of the 2,000 sense; it must also show style. To trans translate plain straightforward prose may be high easy; to translate a poem or an author higher with an individualistic style is quite another thing. Something of the origwhere inal—rhythm, beauty of diction, or what not—is invariably lost in the prodistribuce . T. when too literal is patently at t. and not lit.; when too free it may be current lit. but it ceases to be t. The true course at lies between; the spirit, form, style, varies as well as the meaning of the original it is must be preserved as far as po ible; eal t. should read like an original plateau ork (e.g. the Bible). by known