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I took the diameter of the fun while the eclipfe was on, and 
made it three inches and $34 ; which, by my table, conftru&- 
ed in the year 1769, previous to the tranfit of Venus, makes 
the fun's apparent diameter 32/18”: And the fmalleft I faw 
the bright part of the fun was 74° of an inch : So fmall I am 
certain it was, and it might probably be a very little lefs, tho' 
I believe this to be pretty exact ; and this, I think, makes the 
fun to be 11 digits and 45, eclipfed, or very nearly fo. 
