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eclipse; in fact with the small telescope I used, all the times of the 
eclipse were made out within two or three seconds. The commence- 
ment of the eclipse, although seen but imperfectly, was strikingly beau- 
tiful; without the slightest appearance of the proximity of any body to 
ecame 
more and more favorable for its observation, and before its conclusion, 
disk of the sun. At 91 48m 02s, the centres of the san and moon were 
at their nearest proximity, that of the moon being only 23” above that 
of the Sun; in fact so near were they, that the ring appeared recon 
Sirs 0 28, the eclipse had entirely passed away, its dura- 
tion having been 34 14™ 218; that of the ring was 7™ 42°. 
The light of the sun t greatly diminished; in fact after the 
the sun, and just before the eastern limbs touch; that is to say, when 
the border of the lunar mountains has quit that of the sun, a continuous 
Ting of light is not seen, but parallel black streaks seem to reach from 
one star to the other, which ultimately break as the moon advances. 
st re said to occur as “if the two stars were fastened to- 
gether by a glutinous matter, adhering to certain points of the sun, the 
Srconp Srrizs, Vol. V, No. 14.—March, 1848. 
