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middle of total darkness was at 11^ 0™ 2a% was near IQ*' more easterly than 

 London (that is exactly in the meridian of Dantzic) and that the eclipse began 

 there at Q^ 524-"^, and ended at 12^ lO'". Therefore the duration could not be 

 Qh ym 5Qs^ 3g j-j^g editor of the said Nouvelles has published ; not considering 

 that the beginning could not be seen for clouds, as in the very next words he 

 assures us. 



As to the darkness, it was such that they could scarcely distinguish each 

 other : and besides Jupiter, Mercury and Venus; of the fixed stars, Cassiopeia, 

 Capella, Oculus Tauri, and Orion, (Sirius not being yet risen) were visible. 



An Account of a Journey from the Port of Oratava in tlie Island of Teneriffy 

 to the top of the Peak in that Island, in August 1715; with Observations, 

 By Mr. J. Edens. N° 345, p. 317- 



On Tuesday, Aug. 13, N. S. at half an hour past 10 in the evening, I, in 

 company with 4 more English and one Dutchman, with horses and servants to 

 carry our provision, together with the usual guide, set forward from the port of 

 Oratava. The night being somewhat cloudy, and the moon in the full at 12 

 the night following. 



At half past 1 1 we came to the town of Oratava, which is about 2 miles from 

 the port, where we stopped about half an hour, to get walking staves, to assist 

 us in our ascending the steep of the peak. At one o'clock on Wednesday 

 morning, we came to the foot of a very steep rising, about 'a mile and half 

 above the town of Oratava, where it began to clear up ; and we saw the peak 

 with a white cloud covering the top of it like a cap. — At 2 o'clock we came to 

 a plain place in the road, which the Spaniards call Dornajito en el Monte verde 

 (the little trough in the green mountain) so called I suppose because a little be- 

 low this plain, on the right hand as we went, there is a deep hollow; at the 

 upper end of which hollow, there is a spout of wood placed in a rock, through 

 which there runs very clear and cool water, which comes from the mountains ; 

 and at a descent a little lower than the spout there is a trough, into which the 

 water comes. 



At 3, after travelling a road, which was sometimes pretty smooth and at 

 other times very rough, we came to a little wooden cross, by the road side on 

 the left-hand, which the Spaniards call la Cruz de la Soltera, the cross of the 

 Soltera. At this place we also saw the peak before us ; and though we had 

 come up hill quite from the port, yet it seemed almost as high here as when we 

 were there, the white cloud still hiding the greatest part of the sugar-loaf. 



After riding about half a mile further, we came to the side of a hill which 

 was very rough and steep, (the place called Caravala ;) where are a great many 



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