632 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 17()2. 



LXXXFUI. The Eclipse of the Moon, May S, 1762, in the Morning, ob- 

 served by Mr. Short, in Surry street, London, p. 542. 



Diameter of the moon, (in the direction of an angle of 45° with the horizon, 

 the lower end of the diameter being to the west of the moon's centre, measured 

 with an achromic object-glass micrometer of 40 feet focus, and found to be = 



31' 31 ".7, — On the 7th May, at llh 35m qs 



a. Librae passed the meridian, at . . j 1 38 25 



Preceding limb of the moon on the meridian, at 11 4q 53 



Subsequent ditto, at 1 1 52 13^ 



Penumbra, sensible at . 13 40 o 



Diameter of the moon, 31 ' 2(5', measured again, at 13 50 O 



jBeginning of the eclipse, through an achromic opera-glass, at . . 14 12 30 



Shadow very dense on the moon's limb, at 14 14 o 



So that I conclude the eclipse began at 14 13 q 



The times above are apparent times. 



^tinJjXXXlX. Observations on the same Eclipse. By Dr. Bevis. p. 543. 



Apparent time. 



14*^ 8"^ 0^ A discernible penumbra on the moon's limb. 



14 20 The beginning of the eclipse, by the bare eye ; but doubtful to about 



a minute, from the dilute and uncertain termination of the true 



shadow. 



XC. Of a Remarkable Monument fomid near ^shford in Derbyshire. By Mr. 

 iiy Evatt, oj Ashford. p. 544. 



In the year 1759, as some people were making a turnpike road through the 

 village of Wardlow, near this place, they thought proper to take out of an ad- 

 joining field a heap of stones, that had lain there time immemorial, and without 

 any tradition why it was thrown together in that place, though it was manifestly 

 a work of art. Here, to their great surprize, on removing the stones, they 

 found a monument, to the memory of 1 7 persons, or more, who had been there 

 interred. The bodies appeared to have been laid on the surface of the ground, on 

 long flat stones, and their heads and breasts protected from the incumbent 

 weight of stone, by small walls made round them, with a flat stone over the top ; 

 excepting 2 principal ones, which were walled up, and covered from head to 

 foot, in the form of a long chest, with a stone cover over each. On removing 

 the rubbish, many bones, such as jaw-bones, teeth, and the like, were found 

 undecayed ; but none at all of the larger bones of the body. The heap of stones 

 that covered them was 32 yards in diameter, and about 5 feet high ; and the 

 stones of which the coflins or tombs were composed, appear very plainly to iiave 



