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Observations on the eclipse of the sun, June \6, 1806. 25 
east part of the Island of Nashewena five miles W S W from Tar- 
rae Cove, “the Eclipse was not total but the lucid part was very 
“small and of a circular form and appeared very much Saga 
“ suddenly changing its place round the south limb of the moon.” 
By comparing the latitudes and longitudes of these places as given by 
Mr. Leslie with those marked on two well executed and apparently 
accurate asa of ee ¢ Elizabeth rama &e. saree By. nee? it 
: ff gon pps ation, that the mean time of the least ap- 
parent distance of the centres of the sun and moon at ‘Tarpaulin-Cove 
was lth. 28’ 32”. The D’s s parallax—O’s. parallax, in a longi itude 
+e 26"-93, in latitude—18" 5 ie 7, hs antag ae 
eter 16 41". ae ; 
stn in half’a minu appa a 
of the Re ae of re sun Paar moon vhs 02. | "Hea if 9 
ciation of the total darkness at heel So's Lah exactly. 
arent semi- 
$ ve seid Sa ee 
corrected as before Ga the Penn a = moon > A aan. the: 
latitude —6 —6"'8) was 5958. The difference betwepa, thie: supetninans 
is im, which sar the additional. corre 
