mas O7 Ao RONOMICAL' and | 
Obleivations of the Tranfits of Venus and. MERCURY over 
the Sun, in the Years 1769, and 1782. 
1 “An obfervation of the tranfit of Venus over the fun, 
Sabin june 3, 1769, at Newbury, . 
1 ‘The tranfits of Venus over the fun are. among the andit un- 
&ommon-and ufeful phenomena which aftcónomy ever pr efents 
to our view. JI had the happinefs -of feeing that of 1761, at 
it. Fobn’ s, in Newfoundland, attending the late excellent. Dr. 
Winthrop in his voyage and obfervations at that place. ‘That 
of 1769 I obferved at Newbury, at the feat of Tri ifra Dalton, 
£g; a gentleman of Newbury-2 Port. A 
“pahe, gore, I ufed was a i, d P Naicne, mag- 
ing about 55 times ; a good inftrument, but not fitted with 
a acon, e or with vertical and horizontal hairs, as I could 
e wifhed. ` Fhe clock was a very good one, and-carefully 
djufte fo = time 2 eang Minds of the fun. 
e weather t for: fever days before the teint fad DAN dull 
al rainy ; ; but ‘the third. of June proved ‘favourable to our 
wifhes. The air was uncommonly clear, and the fky ferene. 
About twenty minutes before the tranfit was expected, I began 
| to keep my eye fteadily fixed on that part of the fun's limb on 
¿which the.plahet, by calculation, ‘was to enter ; an afliftant, 
x «counting the clock in the.mean time, while another ftood- by 
| ` tos ite down. the. obfervations. T s a e we waited 
i. por RE 
ving the tranfit of 1761, and which I knew muft end 
witht 
“in j Venus on: the fan; a fatisfiction I had once before ror 
