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Thus, at two o'clock happened the minimum of the thermo- 

 nietrical depression, following closely the time of total eclipse: 

 it continued for some at the same degree, and then gradually 

 rose again as follows : 



At 2'' 45' it was .. ..72" 



3 0.. . ..82 



In the shade, where the thermometer is affected more by re- 

 flected than by direct heat, the only sensible effect was a depres- 

 sion of two degrees of the scale : when the eclipse began, the 

 thermometer stood at 60', and at 2 o'clock (when on ordinary 

 occasions it would have risen one or two degrees) it had sunk to 

 58". By three o'clock it had risen again two or three degrees. 



The barometer remained stationary at 30*05 ; wind westerly, 

 and very calm. 



The effect produced by an apparent close of the day in the 

 middle of it was very curious : the singularity of effect was pro- 

 duced by the mind's contemplating at once tv/o phsenomena 

 which do not occur together at the ordinary time of night-fall — 

 namely, short shadows and diminished light ; the opaque body 

 of the intervening moon having reduced the light to the gloom 

 of five o'clock in the evening, while the short siiadows cast from 

 objects by an elevated sun proclaimed midday. A remarkable 

 crowing of cocks occurred just at the total of the eclipse ; and 

 this circumstance (though I believe quite accidental) heightened 

 the curious effect of the whole phaenomenon. 



1 am. Sir, yours, &c. 

 Hartwell, Sussex, T. FoRSTER. 



Sept. 12, 1820. 



EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCK. 



As Mr. John Colo, formerly a schoolmaster at Fingringhoe 

 in Essex, was sitting with others in a field belonging to Mr. 

 Elijah Clarke, farmer, of that parish, while viewing the late 

 eclipse of the sun with his right eye, he being totally blind of 

 the left, partially shaded by his hand, his left eye was instantly 

 restored to sight, and he can now see with it as perfectly as he 

 did thirty years ago. 



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