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sky of a deep-blue colour, and the tranquillity of the scene was broken only 

 by the repeated crowing of the cock, and the lowing of some neighbouring 

 cattle. The following is a table of the observed heights of the thermome- 

 ter during this eclipse, which lasted two hours and forty -eight minutes : — 



No. 1 — A thermometer, with the bulb blackened and placed in the sun's 

 rays in a little recess against a south wall ; No. 2 — a delicate little 

 thermometer, N. E. aspect, in the shade. 



The hygrometer, at the beginning of the eclipse, was at 43% and at the 

 termination, 44*^. Barometer, 29.905. 



No. 1. iVo. 2. Time. 



p. m. 86« 65'' 3h. 5m. p. m. 



81 63 greatest obscura. 



89 65 3h. 40 m. p. m. 



100 65 4h. Om. p. m. 



Observers who witnessed the annular appearance of this eclipse, remark— 

 " that the light of the sun, although sufficiently diminished to render both 

 Venus and Jupiter visible, was far too powerful to allow any of the fixed stars 

 to be seen." Jupiter, notwithstanding his situation was accurately known, was 

 vainly searched for at Malvern. From the preceding account, great doubt must 

 be entertained respecting the stories of eclipses, where the birds have retired 

 to roost, and domestic animals have appeared terrified ; for anything darker 

 than the obscuration from an annular eclipse, must last so short a period, 

 that by the time the birds had perched themselves upon their roost, the fast- 

 increasing light would call them on the wing again : at all events, these oc- 

 currences would not happen except in eclipses central and total. 



Great Malvern, June 1. 



MARCH. 



