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Lincoln galley to convey me to Penob/fot, or any other port at 
the eaftward, with fuch affiftants as I fhould judge neceffary. 
Accordingly, I embarked O&ober 9, with Mr. Stephen. 
Sewall, Profefior of the Oriental Languages, James Winthrop, 
Eíq; Librarian, Fortefque Vernon, A. B. and Meff’rs. Atkins, 
Davis, Hall, Dawfon, Renfalear, and King, Students in the 
Univerfity.. We took with us an excellent clock, an aftrono-- 
mical. quadrant of 2+ feet radius, made by Sz/fons, feveral tele- 
Ícopes, and füch other apparatus as were neceffary. 
On the 17th: we arrived in Pencbfcot-Bay. The veffet was 
directed to come to anchor in a cove on the eaft fide of Long- 
lfland.. After feveral attempts to find:a better fituation for ob- 
E we. fixed on this od as the iat convenient we: 
ments «c on diei "s ig T E pepe ina skin 
facing towards the fouth, near the houfe of Mr. Shubael Willi- 
ami, Where the following obfervations were made. 
RE OcTOBER 20. iis 
Correfponding altitudes of the fun taken with a reflector 
with vertical and. horizontal wires. 
Time 
* As the officer who commanded at Penobfcot, in his anfwer to the application of e 
the government;-had limitted us to a time wholly inadequate to our-purpofe, from . 
the 25th to the 3oth: of: :O&ober, we were obliged to make a fecond application for 
leave to enter Penobfcot- Bay. Leave was granted, but with a pofitive order to have. 
no communication with any of the inhabitants, and to depart on the 28th, the day 
after the eclipfe. ^ Being thus retarded and embarraffed by ditta ótders, and al- 
lowed no time after the -eclipfe to make any obfervations; it became neceflary to fet 
up our apparatus and begin our obfervations without any further lofs of time. In. 
the courfe of which, we received every kind of affiftance fromCapt.Henrs Mowatt, . 
of. the Bip. which it was in his power to give. 
