a 82 Mtjcellanea Curiofa. 



the interval of the two Eyes ; Yet even this 

 latter will hardly reach beyond, if fo far as 

 the vifible Horizon : and all beyond it, is loft. 



So that, there being nothing left to afllfc 

 the fancy in eltimating fo great a diftance, 

 but only the intermediate Objects : Where 

 thefe intermediates appear to the Eye, (as, 

 when the Sun or Moon are near the Horizon .•) 

 the diftance is fancied greater, than where 

 they appear not, (as when farther from it :) 

 and confequently (though both under the 

 fame or equal Angles) that near the Horizon 

 is fancied the greater. And this I judge to 

 be the true reafon of that appearance. 



You will excufe (I hope) what excurfion I 

 have made } becaufe though fome of them 

 might have been fpared, as to the prefent 

 cafe } yet they are not impertinent to the bu- 

 fiiiefs of Vifion ; and the eftimate to be thence 

 made, of Magnitudes and Diftances, by the 

 Imagination. 



The Sun's Eclipfe May ifl. was here ob- 

 ferved about f a Digit - 7 between one and two 

 a Clock after noon. 



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