SO PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1684. 



Stony, when dry. — 14. A red stone clay ; 15, A blue stone clay, in the banks 

 of Whitcar beck, near Leppington, and at Housam in the Milscar. l6. 

 Clunch, a white stone clay in Cambridgeshire. 



Mixed with round sand or pebble. — 17. The yellow loam of Skipwith moor, 

 Yorkshire. 18. A red sandy clay in the right hand bank of the road beyond 



Collingham, near the lime kilns going to 1 Q. A red sandy clay in 



the red sand rock near Rippon. 



fFith flat or thin sand, glittering with mica. — 20. Crouch white clay Derby- 

 shire, of which the glass pots are made at Nottingham. 21. Grey or 

 bluish tobacco pipe clay at Halifajc. 22. A red clay in the red sand rock at 

 Rotherham. 



Observations of the Solar Eclipse July 2, 1684, at Oxford; in a Letter from 

 Dr. Edw. Bernard, Astron. Prof Oxon, to Mr. John Flamsteed, Astron. Reg. 

 Also at Lisbon by Mr. Jacobs; at Dublin by Mr, Ash and Mr. Molyneaux; 

 and at,Tredagh by Mr. Osburn. N° 164, p. 7^7- 



The phases of this eclipse were observed by Dr. Wallis ; and the true times 

 of the same were observed by Mr. Caswell and Dr. Rooke, by taking some alti- 

 tudes of the sun to correct the clocks. 



At 1^ 3*" 0*. . The eclipse began. 



9 , . Middle of the sun's obscuration or 6 digits. 

 24 . . The greatest obscuration 7^. 

 24 . . Again the central obscuration or 6 digits. 

 14 . . The end of the eclipse. 

 Mr. Jacobs at Lisbon, July 2, O. S. The beginning of the eclipse at 

 ih. 30m. exactly; the ending at 4h. 12m. 



Mr. Ash and Mr. Molyneaux, at Dublin, though the day being much over- 

 cast hindered them from taking any thing accurately, yet gave some account 

 of their observations, viz. that toward the middle of the eclipse, having a short 

 view of the sun, they judged that about 8 digits were covered: at the ending 

 also, having a faint view of it they assigned its end at 3 h. 56m. P. M. 



Extract of a letter from Mr. William Molyneaux, S.P.S. of Dublin, dated 

 Sept. 2, l684. — ^The same eclipse was observed by one Mr. Osburn, near Tre- 

 dagh, in Ireland, lat. 53° 40'; the beginning ih. 37 m. 30s.; the end 3h. 

 56m. 20s. 



Casp. Bartholini Thorn. F. de Ductu Salivali hactenus non descripto, Observatio 

 Anatomica. Translated and abridged from the Latin. N° 164, p. 7'i9' 

 In the writings of Galen, Haly Abbas, Avicenna and Isaac, some obscure no- 



