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comet, which was seen in the constellation Taurus, or near it ; which I hap- 

 pened to see in J7o6, the figure of which is published in the Transactions 

 N° 305, and which some are pleased to call the Aurora Borealis ; which name, 

 in my opinion, would better befit this lumen boreale, which is seldom, if ever 

 seen out of the north. 



The Eclipse of the Sun on Sept. 3, 1708, in the Mornings as seen at Up- 

 minster, accorcting to correct apparent Time. — The beginning of the eclipse 

 could not be seen for clouds. At 6h. 44m. 15s. the sun peeped out of the 

 clouds, and I judged, by my eye, that about one-tenth of a digit was eclipsed. 

 — ^Then clouds nearly all the time of the eclipse. But at 8h. 3Jm. 15s. a little 

 obscuration appeared through the telescope. — At 8h. 32m. 45s. a very little 

 obscuration, through the telescope. — Then clouds. And at 8h. 35m. 45s. we 

 could discern no remains of the eclipse through the telescope. 



From these observations I imagine the end of this solar eclipse was about 

 8h. 33m. in the morning. 



The Eclipse of the Moon, Sept. 18, 1708, in the Evening, at Upminsler. — 

 As I was that evening coming from London, I observed for half an hour, or 

 more, a thin shade possess that part of the disk where the eclipse began, which 

 remained a good while after the eclipse was over. After I got home, I mounted 

 my telescopes, and got all things in readiness before the eclipse began. And 

 the principal observations I made, were these following : 



At 7h. 56m. 30s. a thin penumbra. — At 7h. 57m. 40s. a darker- penumbra. 

 — At 7h. 59m. yet darker, which may pass for the beginning of the eclipse. 

 — At 8h. the eclipse no doubt begun. — At gh. im. the lucid parts of the moon, 

 not long before the middle of the eclipse, were 925 parts of my micrometer.—^ 

 At 9h. 16m. 40s. diameter of the moon l634 parts of the micrometer. — At 

 lOh. 23m. lis. the end of the eclipse draws nigh. — At loh. 25m. a little obscu- 

 ration. — At lOh. 26m. less. — At lOh. 28m. 15s. a very little, excepting the 

 duskiness before-mentioned. 



Concerning some Roman Antiquities observed in Yorkshire. By Mr. Ra, 

 Thoresby, F. R. S. N° 320, p. 314. ^ 



Some Roman monuments have lately been found among the ruins on Adel 

 or Echop-Moor, but having no legible inscriptions. They are only 18 inches 

 high, and 6 inches broad ; of a very coarse stone, as Dr. Lister has truly ob- 

 served, most of those found in the north are. One of these, as appears by 

 the discus, has been one of their portable altars ; but another, instead of the 

 hearth, having three entire rolls or wreaths, was certainly never designed for 

 that purpose. 



