149 ASTRONOMICAL AnD 
-the quantity of the eclipfe-—He defcribed on paper a number 
of circles, dividing a common diameter into digits. The pa- 
per was placed perpendicular to a telefcope, through which the 
fun's rays were received upon it. Accuracy is not pretended 
-in this method. The quantity noted, is the neareft that could 
be eftimated by it. 
Through want of crofs wires in either of the telefcopes ufed, 
the precife fituation of the fpots, on the fun's difc, could not 
“he determined. In the figure, their relative fituation is mark- 
ved, according to judgment at the time. | 
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