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apples, and then boil the juice in a copper till f of it is wasted, which will be 

 done in about 6 hours gentle boiling; and then it comes to be of the sweetness 

 and consistency of molosses. 



This new molosses answers all the purposes of that made of the sweet cane 

 imported from beyond sea. It serves not only for food and brewing, but is of 

 great use also in the preserving of cyder; 2 quarts of it put into a barrel of 

 racked cyder, will both preserve and give it a very agreeable colour. 



Our country farmers run much upon planting orchards of these sweetings, 

 for fattening their swine, and assure me it makes the best sort of pork. And I 

 know the cyder made of them to be better than that of other fruit for taste, 

 colour, and keeping. 



Two short miles from my house we have a fine pond, of half a mile over, 

 having little or no communication with the sea^ An ingenious man, about O'O 

 years since, for an experiment, took a pail of large smelts from the river, and 

 put them into this pond, where they have increased abundantly, but are dege- 

 nerated to a very small sort; for our river smelts I suppose are full as large as 

 those of the Thames, some of them I know will weigh 2^ oz. whereas these 

 small ones will not weigh 5 penny w. We reckon the pond smelt eats much 

 better than the other; they are also very transparent, and of a beautiful shining 

 pearl colour. 



Roxburyy New England^ Oct. 25, 1722. 



Observations on the Eclipse of the Moon, June 18 ^ 1/22; and the Longitude 

 of Port Royal in Jamaica determined by it. By Dr. Halley, F. R. S, 

 N° 375, p. 235. 



The eclipse of the moon, which happened in June, 1722, was so far hid by 

 the cloudy sky, that neither myself, nor any of our astronomical friends, in or 

 about London, could furnish an observation fit to be laid before the Society. 

 But having been well observed at Jamaica, by Capt. Candler, commander of 

 his Majesty's ship Launceston, and at Berlin, by Mr. Christfried Kirck, astro- 

 nomer of the Royal Academy of Sciences there, I thought it not amiss to pre- 

 fix to their accounts what little I was able to note concerning it. 



June 18, in the morning, having perfectly rectified my clock so as to show 

 the apparent time, neither the transit of the moon over the meridian, nor the 

 beginning of the eclipse which soon followed, could be seen through the very 

 thick cloud. At 13^ 12"^ apparent time, a small particle of the moon's body 

 was seen through a very small hiatus in the cloud, by which glimpse I could 

 only be assured that the eclipse was not yet total. At 13^ 29"^, by such another 

 view, I was satisfied that it was now become total; but in a moment, it again 



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