Miscellaneous Ifitelligence 



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LatituJe North, 

 Longitude East, 



Eclipse begins, 



Total eclipse begins, . . . . 

 Least distance of centres, 



Total eclipse ends, 



Eclipse ends, 



Duration total eclipse, . . . 



whole " 



An":le of be*rinninfr. . . 





of end, ....... .^ 



At the least distance of 

 centres, 



Dantzic. 



54° 



18 

 h. 

 3 



4 



5 



2 



24' 



40 



m. 



29 



30 

 32 



33 



31 



3 



2 



15'' 

 15 



sec' 

 7 P.M. 



14 

 51 



10 



14 



3 



Pillau.» 



54^ 



19 

 h. 



3 



4 



5 



110°-0 



2940-6 

 MoonX'i-thl4"-58 

 difF. S. D. 53"-43 



2 



33' 

 52 



m. 

 34 



35 



37 

 38 

 35 



3 



1 



111 



39" 

 30 



sec. 



28 

 34 

 13 

 52 

 49 

 18 

 21 



O.Q 



o. 



Koningsburg. 



r.M. 



293"-6 



South 

 diff. S. D. 



54^ 

 20 



h. 



3 



4 



5 



2 



42' 



50'' 



30 



6 



m. 



sec. 



37 



1 1 



38 



1 



39 



39 



41 



10 



38 



4 



3 



3 







5-7 



111 



0.4 



VM. 



2930-1 



6"-80!South ^ 20"-02 

 53"-28diff. S.R 53"-13 





52° 



21 

 h. 



3 

 4 





Latitude, 



Longitude East, ].[ 



Eclipse begins, 



Total eclipse begins, 



Least distance of centres, 



Total eclipse ends, 



Eclipse ends, 



Duration total eclipse',."!! 

 " "n^hole do., . , , . 

 Angle of bcf^innin^, , 



'' ofend,. ...;:;::; 



At least distance of ) 

 ^tres, [ diif.S.D. 



5 



13' 

 2 



43 

 45 

 46 

 47 

 44 



1 







5" 

 9 



sec. 



54 P.M. 



25 

 20 • 

 16 



27 

 51 

 33 



112°-o 

 297^-2 

 Moon:N'rth43"-58 



62"-93 



Nicolaef. 



46° 



31 

 h. 



4 

 6 



6 



1 



21" 

 48 



sec. 

 13 P.M. 



44 



50 

 56 

 19 

 12 

 6 

 °-5 



I 



IS^orth 

 diif. S. 



58' 

 58 



42 

 39 



40 

 41 



35 



2 

 53 



120 



300°-4 



32"-97 



41° 

 44 



5 



6 



41' 4" 



50 40 



m. sec. 



44 31 P.M. 



37 21 



88 35 



39 48 



2 27 

 126°-2 



50 



fr. 



'i 



North 



diff. S. 



11 "-90 

 47"-02 



At Carlscrona, lat. 56° 9^ 31^^ Ion. IS*" 35' 13'^ E., the apparent 

 North latitude of the Moon at 4h. 15m, 35sec. will be 8''-41, and the 

 eclipse will be total from 4h. 13m. 51sec: to 4h. J7m. 16sec. 



At Elsineur, lat. 56"* 2^ 20^ Ion. 12° 37' 30" E., the least distance 

 ofthe centres (53^-84) will lake place at 4h. 2m. 34sec., and as the 

 difference of the semi-diamelers is 54^'-45, the eclipse by compulation 

 ^ill be total there. 



At Copenhagen, in lat. 55° 40' 53'^ Ion. 12^ 34' 57" E., the least 

 distance (65''-28) will take place at 4h. 3m. Isec, and the magnitude 

 ot the obscuration will be IT 56' on the north limb of the Sun.— Boston 

 JJaily Advertiser. 



Boston, March 26th, 1851. 



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V. Miscellaneous Lxtelligence. 



1. Electro'inagnetic Locomotive^ (From the National Intelligencer 

 of iMay 3, 1851.) — We lay before our readers a statement from Pro- 

 fessor Page respecting the Electro-magnetic Locomotive; and when 

 ^e regard the fact that the highest power ever attained before his ex- 

 periments was less than half a horse power, and that costing probably 

 one hundred limes as much as it does under this new mode of its ap- 

 P'Jcaiion, we cannot be indifferent to so great a result, and the high 

 promises with which it seems to be fraught : 



Messrs, Editors : — The electro-magnetic locomotive made a very 

 favorable trip on Tuesday last, more especially when il is taken into 

 "le account that we were constrained to make this trial with only one- 



