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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 



[anno idgg. 



Ft. Inc. 



A dark grey stone 1 6 



A wliinstone 1 O 



A dark grey stone 3 O 



A cowshot coloured stone with 



catheads in it 3 O 



Black metal mixed with coal . i 6 



Cowshot coloured stone .... 10 6 



In all 21 fathoms. 



The charge gl. 5s. 



Bored 140 yards west from the 



former place, in the Taith- 



Garth. 



In yellow clay 9 O 



Orange coloured stone .... 24 O 



A cowshot coloured stone. ... 6 



Black metal I 6 



Cowshot coloured stone .... 3 Q 



Coal mixed with metal Q 



A blue metal 1 6 



Coal 2 9 



Cowshot coloured stone .... 6 O 

 In all 9 fathoms. 



The charge of boring, 2l. Is. 3d. 

 Bored intheseveralsonthewest 



side of the fish-ponds 



In yellow clay 9 



Yellowstone 6 O 



Cowshot coloured stone ... 4 6 



Blue stone 15 



Coal 5 3 



Ft. Inc. 



Grey metal l 4 



Coal, under this coal a hard 



grey stone 3 O 



In all 



The charge ll. 1 2s. 6d. 

 Bored at the west-end of the 

 East-hall close 



Inearth 3 



Coal 1 



Bored 40 yards by east on the 

 dip. 



Inearth , / 



Coal . . ^. 4 



Bored 30 yards by east, further 

 still on the dip. 



Inearth Q 



Grey metals 2 



Coal 4 



Earth 27 



In all 4 fathoms. 

 The charge 3l. 3s. 9d. 

 Bored in the West Close ad- 

 joining to Win Moor. 



In yellow clay 9 



Orange coloured stone 30 



A whinstone I 6 



An orange coloured stone .... 7 6 



A cowshot coloured stone. ... 7 6 



In all 9 fathoms. 



The charge 2l. Is. 3d. 







9 



9 



2 





 3 

 2 

 O 



^ Co7nei observed at Paris in Feb. 1 698-9. By M. Cassini. N" 250, p. 79. 



Translated from the Latin. 



In the night following Feb. 19, 1699, at the Royal Observatory at Paris, 

 there began to appear through the opening of the clouds, which for some days 

 had obscured the heavens, a small comet, likea nebulus star of the 3d magni- 

 tude, like that which was observed Sept. 1698. It was situated among the 

 unformed stars of the 6th magnitude near the north polar circle, over the head 



