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duce, which he found to be much the same with 

 that of Otaheite. The people whom he saw there 

 also exactly resembled the inhabitants of that island, 

 and many of them were persons whom he had seen 

 upon it ; so that all those whom he had dealt with 

 knew of what his trading articles consisted, and the 

 value they bore. 



The next morning, having struck the tents, they 

 set out on their return, and arrived at the fort before 

 night. 



The observation was made with equal success by 

 the persons whom I had sent to the eastward, and at 

 the fort, there not being a cloud in the sky from the 

 rising to the setting of the sun, the wdiole passage of 

 the planet Venus over the sun's disk was observed with 

 great advantage by Mr. Green, Dr. Solander, and 

 myself: Mr. Green's telescope and mine were of the 

 same magnifying power, but that of Dr. Solander was 

 greater. We all saw an atmosphere or dusky cloud 

 round the body of the planet, which very much 

 disturbed the times of contact, especially of the in- 

 ternal ones ; and we differed from each other in our 

 accounts of the times of the contacts much more 

 than might have been expected. According to Mr. 

 Green, 



Hours. Min. Sec. 



The first external contact, or first appearance 



of Venus on the sun, was - - - - - - 9 25 42 | .s^ 



The first internal contact, or total immer- Y I 



sion, was -----_____ 9 44 4,JS 



The second internal contact, or beginning of >. . 



the emersion, ---------3148(1 



The second external contact, or total emer- Y | 



sion, 3 32 loj < 



The latitude of the observatory was found to be 

 17° ^9' 15'\ and the longitude 149° 32' SO'' W. of 

 Greenwich. A more particular account will appear 

 by the tables, for which the reader is referred to the 

 Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. Ixi. part 2. 



