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This compared with the error of the clock by £ andy, 

 mews that it was lofing 1 7^,06 daily ; at which rate, 

 to the time that t Urfee Majoris pafTed the meridian, it 

 muft have loft i y/ ,95, and the error by t ought to have 

 been 6 / .3c/ / ,4. The difference is only i",4, which is 

 not greater than the errors of obfervation may fome- 

 time be in ftars of great declination. 



Result. Apparent Time correct 



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 y Weft Limb paffed the meridian - 10.51.23 



Kegulus 5 6 - 1 5^5 



Immerfion - 13-56.00,15 



And emerged in lefs than 50'. 



1776, 30th July, an Eclipfe of the Moon, 



Beginning of total darknefs. 



Apparent Time correct. 



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By eye - - 17.00.49 



By telefcope - - 01.16 



Clouds prevented any other obfervations. 



1777, 20th January, an Occultation of £ Geminorum 

 by the Moon. 



Apparent Time correct. 

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Immerfion ----- 13-37-38,6 



23d January, an Eclipfe of the Moon. 



Apparent Time correct. 

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Eclipfe began - - . ' - - 8.41.21,7 



Shadow well defined - 44.33,7 



Mare Humorum touched - 49-*3j7 



Grimaldus do. ... 50. 43,7 



Grimaldus 



