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lebruarfzS^ The fame appeared yet to increafe ; as alfo Febru- 
arj 27. But after this time I could not fee it, by reafon of the ill 
weather, 
jfje fame Adionomer did fuhjoin the following Extrd^i of a 
Letter he received from Monsieur Hevelius, March 1 5, \66q ^ 
concerning fuch another St ar viz, 
I have watched the New Star in the Neck of the Whale^ as often 
as the weather would give me leave^ which it hath done but feldom 
this Winter. In^anuary^ thQ 5, 7, and 13 dayes, it did not 
yet appear. From this time, the Sky was continually overcaft^till 
January 23. on which day, I found a little Star of the Sixth or 
Seventh Magnitude^dhont the fame place where the faidiV^n? Star 
ufesto appear. But it then feemed to me not the genuine New 
Star, hut another, to ^it, preceding the Newy whofe Longitude 
hath been defined by me in Mercuries in Sole vifus in Aries, gr. 25, 
45'. 5". and the Latitude gr. 14. 41'. 32". South, Anno 1660. 
Then fiom January 23, to February ly it was Cloudy weather 
again 5 but this fecond of February^ it appear'd very bright, and 
that) when theMoon/hone^ of thebignefsof that in the Mouth of 
the whale y or Nodo Lini : from which time I alwayes obferved it 
to grow bigger. March 13. I did ftill find it extreamly bright, but 
cotild not by my naked Eye , becaufe of the vivid Crefufcky 
and the Ww fite of the Star , accurately determine its Mag- 
nitude. 
I have received (faith he further) your two MonitaadJftro- 
SecNumb.ii.of thefe ^^^^^ 5 ^^d the Difcourfe h^^th much pleafed me, 
Tranfaaions,f. 381, you having not much deviated from the Truth, 
if w'ln'oVrhe^^^^^^ inrejpedof the Appearance. ' Heretofore I had 
^Moniuoi M^Buiii' of this, and other i^^ir Stars^znother Hypothecs-, 
^idt6s. but Icannot thereby fo accurately divine the Ap^- 
pearances, as you will read more largely in its due place. 
