EMmUdJ a Letter t[ Monfieur Hevelius ffam Dantzick wriMen 
to the Pubhjher m Latin, March { ft. nov\) 1672 5 x^ving 
fome Acccmpt of a New Comet, lately [em in that Ccmtrj : 
Englijlnd as joll&mth. 
Shall not excufe my long filence^ but acquaint you r 
^ brief with a New Appearance io the Heavens. There 
hath^een feen here a New Comet irom the iriof Match 1672 3 
which I my felf, being fome daies abfent from home and from 
my inftruments, could not obferve till March 6th in the 
cveDiog* It is feen both mornings and evenings* It is but 
little, having at the prefent a train not above a degree or a 
degree and an half loog^: which would doubtlels appear big- 
ger, if it were not for the twy-light, and the Moon were ab- 
fent. It is now about the Stars in the right Arm of Jndromeda^^^p^^^ 
on her Shoulder-blade. As far as l ean colled from one or two 
obfervations , it tends towards the Lu$ida oi Androm§dds^- 
girdle, and that with a dired diurnal motion of about two 
degrees in its courfe. 
The €tb of March m the evening, % 7- 4^ • was in grad; 
7. of V in the 7,^th dcg* of Northern Latitude j as.1 guefied 
by the hafty infpe£tion of a Globe. 
March 7. in the morning h. 3.30'. its Longitude was abput 
8, deg. with a foraewhat leffer latitude than before in 
the Evening of the fame day its Longitude was 10. deg.r, 
and Latitude 34* deg»/f re. 
March 8. in the morning h4* the Longitude was 12. deg.V. 
and the Latitude 33.deg; Which yet I would not have taken 
precifelyj becaufe I cannot yet reduce my Obfervations to 
a eakulns. This eveningg I hope, I fhall fee him again, al- 
though this mormng we could fee aotbing by reafon of the 
dark weather. 
I intend to fend you by the next more particular and 
more accurate Ob fervations, which I purpofe to make care» 
fully 5 as bft as I can, with my Brafs Oftant, which is about 
9 feet long. And I long to hearj what you or other Nations 
have obferved of this Phenomenon^ 
Mm mm 2 Befides^ 
