In the winter and spring of 1818, a University of Georgia mathematician named James Camak was looking for a sextant and astronomical tables to use in determining where the border between Georgia and Tennessee lay.
According to a 2004 article in Professional Surveyor magazine, there was not enough time to buy them from abroad, so Camak reported that in Athens he procured a “very good” sextant “of English construction.”
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