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XXTL Remarks on the first Part of M. ["Abbe Bathelemy's Memoir on the 

 Phoenician Letters, relative to a Phoenician Inscription in the Island of Malta. 

 By the Rev. John Swinton, B.D., F. R. S. p. IIQ. 



M. I'Abbe Barthelemy having lately communicated to the learned world, a 

 copy of one of the Phoenician inscriptions long since discovered in the Island of 

 Malta, more accurately taken (as he pretends) than any of those that had ever 

 before appeared, and attempted to explain it in a manner perfectly new; Mr. S. 

 makes a few cursory remarks on what he has been pleased to advance on this 

 occasion. But the dispute is too little interesting to merit any further consi- 

 deration in these Abridgments. 



XXII T. A Catalogue of the Fifty Plants from Chelsea Garden, presented to the 

 Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries, for the Year 1763, pursuant 

 to the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane. By John fVilmer, M.D. p. 137. 



This is the 42d presentation of this kind, completing to the number of 2 J 00 

 different plants. 



XXIV. Observations on the Eclipse of the Sun, April 1, 1764. By the Rev. 

 Nathaniel Bliss, M. A., Savilian Prof of Mathem., Oxford. &c. p. 141. 



On account of cloudy weather, only the following observations were taken. 



The beginning of the eclipse at g*' 5™ 3' morn. 



The digits eclipsed at least 10-525^. 



The moon's equatorial diameter . . ..... ig' 55"-^. 



The sun's horizontal diameter 31 564^. 



XXV. Observations on the Eclipse of the Sun, April 1, 1764. By the Rev. 

 Thomas Hornshy, M.A, and Savilian Prof of Astron. at Oxford, p. 145. 



Beginning of the eclipse at 8** SQ™ 33' apparent time. 



Moon's horizontal diam. by the micrometer 29' 45."1. 



It was fonnerly a dispute among the astronomers, whether the moon's diameter 

 did not appear less when viewed on the sun than when seen on a darker ground. The 

 observations of M. le Monnier in Scotland, in 1748, seemed to leave little room 

 for doubt. At the time of the middle, the moon's centre was about 39° high, and 

 therefore the moon appeared under a greater angle to the eye of the observer 

 than if seen from the earth's centre, by about 18 seconds. The true horizontal 

 diameter from the above obserxations was therefore 29' 27 '; which is but J" less 

 than according to the latest and best tables; which tables may perhaps give the 

 moon's diameter too large, because constructed from observations made with 

 refracting telescopes, through which the diameters, both of the sun and moon, 

 must necessarily appear under an angle somewhat enlarged. 



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