698 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 174g. 



An Eclipse of the Moon, observed at Mr. Graham's in Fleet-street. By John 

 Bevisy M.D. and Mr. James Short, F. R. S. N° 493, p. 247. 



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The sun passed the meridian. 

 36' A sensible penumbra. 

 56. . Eclipse begins. 

 38. . Eclipse ends. 

 3. . Penumbra gone. 

 . . Moon's centre passed the meridian. 

 . . Sirius passed, his mean right ascension 

 being 98" 3 1' 38". 

 13, 23 56 46 . . The sun passed the meridian. 

 A computation by Dr. Halley's tables gave the beginning &^ 52™ 0' app. time. 

 And the end 9 14 58 



Of an Extraordi?iary Meteor seen in the County of Rutland, which resembled 

 a Water Spout. By Tho. Barker, Esq. N° 498, p. 248. 



Sept. 15, 1749, a remarkable meteor was seen in Rutland, being much like 

 the account of two spouts seen at Hatfield in Yorkshire; Phil. Trans. N° 281, 

 and N° 284. It was a calm, warm, and cloudy day, with some gleams and 

 showers; the barometer low and falling, and the wind south, and small. The 

 spout came between 3 and 6 in the evening; at 8 came a thunder shower, and 

 storm of wind, which did mischief in some places; and then it cleared up with a 

 brisk n. w. wind. 



A great smoke rose over or near Gretton, in Northamptonshire, with the 

 likeness of fire, either one single flash, or several bright arrows darting down to 

 the ground, and repeated for some time. Yet some who saw it did not think 

 there was really any fire in it, but that the bright breaks in a black cloud looked 

 like it. Coming down the hill, it took up water from the river Welland, and 

 passing over Seaton field, carried away several shocks of stubble, and crossing 

 Glaiston, and Morcot lordships, at Pilton town's end, tore off two branches 

 and carried one of them a good way. In a hedge-row in the meadow, at right 

 angles to the spout's course, stood an oak and an ash 15 yards asunder; the oak 

 a young sound one, 16 inches thick, it split 2 yards down, and one half fell to 

 the ground, but was not quite parted from the other; the ash, about 8 inches 

 thick, was torn oft' in the middle, and carried 10 or 12 yards. 



