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to this part of the globe; and as the atmosphere became more 

 bright, I was enabled, by an excellent achromatic telescope 

 and power of SO, to observe the eclipse with great advantage, 

 and found the appearance, &c. of this phaenomenon to cor- 

 respond with the type, &c. in Moore's and others of the Book 

 Almanacks published by the Stationers' Company. At 89 

 minutes after five, the sun became perfectly clear of clouds, 

 and continued so to the end of the eclipse, which took place 

 atS** ^e*" 10^ mean time, according to the meridian of Epping. 

 The rate of the clock was found by altitudes of the sun, 

 taken before and after the eclipse with Troughton's Reflecting 

 Circle on an horizon of oil, and the times computed for the 

 latitude of the place of observation, which is 51° 41' 41"*6 

 north. I remain most respectfully, 



Thos. Squire. 



P.S. The appearance of this eclipse was an exception to the 

 general rule ; for it began and ended on the eastern side of 

 the vertical circle of the place, passing through the centre of 

 the sun. The oblique motion of the moon rendered the exact 

 points of contact more difficult to be observed than if the ob- 

 scuration had been greater. 



There is an Almanack published in London, wherein the types 

 and popular illustrations of the eclipses of this year are most 

 egregiously incorrect. T. S. 



ERUPTION OF GALOENGOENG IN JAVA. 



The Government has received a detailed account of the 

 eruption of the volcano Galoengoeng in October last. In 

 this terrible visitation, one of the greatest misfortunes that have 

 befallen Java within the memory of man, 4,011 persons 

 perished; and 114 campongs were destroyed ; 2,983 rice plan- 

 tations totally destroyed, and 5,361 injured; the number of 

 coffee trees destroyed amounts to 775,795 ; that of those which 

 have suffered more or less to 3,871,742. 



Batavia, March 22. ^^^^^^ 



CAPTAIN Sabine's expedition. 



Accounts have been received of the progress of the Griper, 

 Captain Clavering, on board of which Captain Sabine sailed 

 from the Nore in tlie month of May last, for the purpose of 

 carrying on the series of observations on the pendulum, in the 

 high latitudes of the Polar seas. They arrived at the North 

 Cape, after a tedious passage, the beginning of June, and pro- 

 posed to remain at Hammerfest about three weeks. From 

 that place they would go to Spitzbergen, as the second station 



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