The top of the stand supports an artificial horizon with astrological notations; there is an hour circle around the North Pole. The globe rotates within a metallic meridan to which the axis is attached. The inscription on the globe reads: “Loring’s Terrestrial Globe Containing all of the Late Discoveries and Geographical Improvements. Also the Tracks of the Most Celebrated Circumnavigations Compiled from Smith’s New English Globe with Calculations and Improvements by American auth. Revised by Roswell Park 1851 Manufactured by Gilman Joslin Boston.”
The top of the stand supports an artificial horizon with astrological notations. There is an hour circle around what would be the North Pole. Figures of the constellations are drawn in. The inscriptions on the globe reads: “Loring’s Celestial Globe Containing all the known stars, Nebula &c. Compiled from the various works of Wollaston, Flamstead, de La Caille, Havelius, Mayer, Bradley, Herschel, Smith’s New English Globe. Boston, Josiah Loring, Washington St., 1841.”
