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73 8, I left it on March 8.at the i8. of the Horn oiAries^ al- 
anoft in the fame latitude ^ and I am apt to believe, it will be 
Eclipfed 5 which I wifh I may be able to obferve this evenings 
if it be not already pafled. 
If Signior Cafjini hath obferved it on thofe daies that I 
have^he will be glad to find the conformity of our Obfcrva- 
tions. I fliall only add^ that on Febntary 5. we were furpfi- 
zed, to fee the Comet again much brighter then ordinary, 
and with a confiderable Train. Some did believe, that it ap- 
proached again to us. But having beheld it with a Tclejc&pe^ 
I foon faid , that it was joyncd with two fmall Stars, whereof 
one was pretty bright, which I had already feen , on Fe- 
bruarj 28, and 29 : And this conjnnftion gave the Comet 
that brightnels, as it happens to moftof the Statrs of the 
fifth and fixth magnitude , v/here 2 or 3. or more are con- 
joynedjwhich perhaps would (hew but faintly fingle^though 
by reafon of their proximity to one another . they appear 
butoneftarr. Hence it was, that I aflured my friends here, 
that the following days we fhould no more fee it fo bright, 
becaufe I knew, that there were none fuch fmall bright Stars 
in the way,which by my former obfervations I cotijed-ured it 
was to move. 
An Ohfervation imparted to the Noble Mr. Boyic , by 
il/r. David Thomas, touching fome particulars far- 
ther confiderable in the Monfter mentioned in the 
fir ft Papers of ji^e/e Philofophical tranfaftionse 
Upon the ftrifteft inquiry, I find by one, that faw the Mon- 
ftrous Calf and flone, within four hours after it was cut out of 
the Cows belly , that the Brcaft of the Calf was not fiony ( aa 
i wrote ) but that the skin of the Breafi: and between the Legs 
and ofthe Neck (which parts lay on the fmaller end of the 
ftone j was very much thicker, then on any other part, and 
that the Feet of the Calf were fo parted as to be like the Claws 
of a Dog, The ftone I have fince feen 5 it is bigger at one end 
then. 
