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from the lips quite through the alimentary passage. Mr. Price thinks that the 

 cuticle is continued through the intestines, as well in man, as in large animals ; 

 though its exceeding fineness may make it less observable. 



Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites, &c. observed at Bologna in 1727. -% Sig. 

 Manfredi, F. R. S. N° 404, p. 534. From the Latin. 



The 3d satellite was immersed. 



Its emersion; but doubtful. 



Emersion of the 1st satellite. 



Emersion of the same satellite. 



Immersion of the 3d satellite. 



Emersion of the same. 



Emersion of the 2d satellite. 



Immersion of the 1st satellite. 



Immersion of the same. 



Immersion of the 3d ; doubtful. 



Emersion of the same; doubtful. 



Emersion of spica n^ from the moon's dark limb. 



^n Occultation of Venus by the Moon, at Bologna, Sept, 18, 1727, N.S. 

 By Sig. Manfredi. N° 404, p. 535. From the Latin. 



Sept. 18, 0*^ 27™ 21^ Venus enters the moon's dark limb. 



28 13 She is totally immersed. 



1 l6 45 Begins to emerge on the bright side. 

 1 17 50 The complete emersion. 



The Barometrical Method of measuring the Height of Mountains. Extracted 

 chiefly from the Observations of John James Scheuchzer, M. D. By J. G. 

 Scheuchzer, M. D. F. R. S. N° 405, p. 537- 



The height of mountains, and their elevation above the level of the sea, 

 has been at all times thought worthy the attention of inquisitive philosophers. 

 We find in Pliny, that Dicasarchus, one of the old geographers, a disciple of 

 Aristotle, and, as Pliny himself stiles him, a man of great learning, had by 

 particular order of some princes measured the heights of several mountains ; 

 and that the highest of them. Mount Pelius in Thessalia, was found by his 

 observations 1250 paces high perpendicularly. Cleomedes also, a Grecian 

 astronomer and geographer, who lived sometime before our Saviour's Nativity, 



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