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NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, 



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THE ARTS. 



"SUPPLEMENT TO VOL. XIX. 



ARTICLE I* 



Remarks on the tot id Eclipse of the Sun, June 16, 1806/ 

 with some nezo Methods of finding the Sun or Moon's 

 Meridian Altitude, and the approximate Time, by AU 

 titudes taken near the Time of Noon. In a Letter from 

 J. Garnett, Esq. Editor of the American Nautical 

 Almanac, 



To Mr. NICHOLSON. 

 SIR, 



A AM a constant reader of your valuable Joiirnal, but Mistake of the 

 have only lately received your No. 75, in which, from the ^Sn^o* 

 proceedings of the French Institute, you have copied Mr. the French 

 Ferrer's observation of the total eclipse of the sun a t Ia$titute - 

 Kinderhook. As I assisted him in the observation, I beg 

 leave to remark a considerable errour, made by you or the 

 French Institute, which places Kinderhook upward of 7 k 

 to the eastward of Paris, instead of Upward of 5 h to the 



westward. 



h. nv. • 

 You mark the time of the conjunction 11 45 33* 

 whereas it was, apparent time - 23 25 33 , 2 > 

 as you will perceive by the printed calculation enclosed. 



Before 



* I copied this time from the Magazin Encycloptdique, and on 



referring to the Journal de Physique, where there is likewise a 



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