Give Adams[[239]] an extra—of which neck and neck the race.
Now I challenge to meet them and the F.R.S.'s all,
For good will and one thousand pounds to their thirty thousand withall,
That I produce a system, which shall measure the time,
When the Sun was vertical to Gibeon, afterward to Syene.
To meet any time in London—name your own period,
To be decided by a majority of twelve persons—a President, odd.
That mean, if the twelve equally divide, the President decide,
I should prefer the Bishop of London, over the meeting to preside.
John Davy Hailes."