( 4045 ) 
Mdnh 3 c.h,9.3 5^at dght.the Coma feen without a Telefcope 
app^tred no pthcrwife than a Star of the 4th magnitude ^ through 
^heMefcipehe^xc:^^ of the firftjbut he was very 
c[ark,and in what manner fQever wte tooked upon hhn, we could 
obferve alinoftnG taylat allof him. He had paffed one degree 
and an half beneath the L,0dda. of the .S©uthern foot of Ferfem ; 
fo that this ftar was exaftly in the midft of the Comet and the lit- 
tle %r of the leg of marked ^ hy Bdyerm^ which then we 
fiw riot but.by a Telefcope* A ftreight line, drawn from one of 
thefe ftars to theother,did a!moft touch the Southern limb of the 
Comet, which being transferred upon the Map of tlie Fixt Stars^ 
fell upon 2 S deg. and 45'* of Taurm^m the Northern latit. ©f % 
cleg* 56'. 
He 5. 4$/. Signer Qj^/^i compared the Coniet with the lefs 
bright Star ofthe Southern footofP^r/m,near-which heliad been 
March 28 j and he found, that the Wcftern limb of the Comet 
touched a flreight line,drawn throughthis lefs bright ftar of Per- 
fern's Southern foot, and through the m.oft Northern of the Head 
ofTmrm; but that he was already got fomewhat nearer to the lat- 
iter. This made him judge,that the Comet, which had lefr^on the 
!North-fidc,all the Stars of the Southern foot of Per fem\ would m 
Ethe progrefs of his courfe leave^ on. the South-lide^all the moft 
cHorthern ftars of the head of T^W4J^» 
11 March '^u h. 8 in the evening, the Comet was in a dired line 
iwith the luucidam the foot of Per fem,zi\(i with the mott-Norrherii 
{in theHead of Taurm ; but he was more than twice as much re-^ 
moter from the firft than the othergand being transferred upon the 
^Map of t he fixt ftars,he was found at 1 5 minutes fr om Gemini^ in 
jjtiie'latit, of 8 deg. 49^ During the whole time that we could ob- 
Jferv-e him this night, (which was till i o a clocks he quirted not 
ithis ftreight line, which was almoft paraUel to the horizon: 
linotwithftanding that his own particular motion fhouy. raife him 
t;a little above it ; as the paral]ax,on the contrary^fliould fink him 
beneath it in approaching to the horizon. It may be,there was a 
^jcompenfation made ofthefe two contrary motions : pofllbly alfo 
lithe effeft of both was not fenfible ; which ought to be examined. 
;ilf it befbundjthatinlbme remote quarteics?€he fame obftrvation 
ll^^rve been made, the|?^r^i|i^ \^dltbe d(^termin 
the Obfervations. 
jl ^Afyil I . the Comiet could not be feen without a Telefcope^ be- 
ipule the&on^beingvery^m But 
