PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 



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VOL. IX.] 



Grammar, and a Critical or Idiomatical Grammar. By Mr. Lewis of Totten- 

 ham, in 8vo. London. 



An Account of the Observations in London and Derby, made by Mr. Hook, 

 Mr. Flamsteed, and others, concerning the late Eclipse of the Moon, of 

 Jan. 1, l67i. N°ll], p. 237. 



Beginning of the true shadow. . 



The immersion 



Emersion . . ^ 



End of the true shadow 



At Derby, which differs from London in longitude 5 min. Mr. Flamsteed 

 observed the beginning of the entrance of the true shadow 5h. IQm. — The 

 penubra was seen in London to continue near half an hour, before it wholly 

 quitted the body of the moon. 



Observed by M, Bulliald at Paris. 



Beginning; the altitude of Capella being 



Immersion j altitude of Capella 



Emersion; altitude of Capella of Pollux 

 End ; altitude of Sirius 



52 26 



62 8 



43 46 



20 47 



By the Phllo. 



laic Tables. 



ii. m. s. 



5 44 27 



6 46 24 



8 24 24 



9 26 21 



Account of Iceland, by B. D. Paul Biornon. Translated from the Latin by the 



Editor. N° 111, p. 238. 



The air of Iceland is very healthy all the year round. The diseases the in- 

 habitants are most subject to, are the colic and leprosy. They have no physi- 

 cians ; only two or three surgeons that furnish plaisters for the di-essing of 

 wounds. In the air iron rusts very soon. — ^The changes of the weather are un- 

 certain, nor do they fall out according to the four seasons of the year. Some- 

 times it snows as well as hails in the middle of summer; and the winds blow now 

 and then very furiously at the same season. — ^The frost penetrates at most four 

 feet into the earth. Spirit of wine and oil escape freezing; much more quick- 

 silver. Fish are preserved from putrefaction by burying them in the snow. 

 Frozen bodies swell, and are changed both in taste and colour. The figure of 



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