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Ol fi^rv^^tkn! made by th fame^of the late Eclipfe of the Moon, the 
'^Qth of September 1 67 1 . ft. vet^ 
SEptemb.8,i6ji. H. 7. 27'^. I firft obferved theMaonE* 
clipfed when it began to be enlightened, the total darknefs 
being already paft ; The (hadow paffed through the middle of 
the Spot called by ReveliusM.Forphyrim^ half of the faid fpot 
appearing without theftiadow and the other half being dark-- 
ned thereby* 
H.7.49'. The fliadow paffed through the middle ofM. Sinai^ 
through the middle of the Eafterraoft of the three Lakes cal- 
led are Adriaticum^ and juft touched the ridge of the 
pnnineMo\xni2L\n%. 
H*7.S4'* It paffed the middle of the J* Besbicns in the ?ro<- 
H.8.o*^> It pafled through the ftreights of the Pontus Euxinus 
at the Promontories Acherufia and Arifles. 
H*8. It touched the P^//^/ i^^^^//, which PaJus 'Maotis 
was then diftant from the limb of the Moon next adjacent one 
Aird part ofitsfhorter diameter or breadth* 
H^S i;'. Thelhadow went off the body of the Moon upon 
the innerrnoft limb-line of Hevelius his large chart of the 
Moon at the 29 divifion juft without the ],jHajor of the Cafpian 
Sea. The duskifh Penumbra left not the limb of the Moon quite 
without feme kind of darknefs^ till 8* 29*3 at which time I 
found that fide of the Moon, which the fliadow laftlefr, was 
full as light and clear as the other. 
About four or five minutes after, the ftladow was gone off^l 
perceived a faint reprefentation of Colours upon thatp^?rtof 
the body of the Moon^ which was moft affected with the P^- 
numbra fomewhat refembling the colours of a faint Halo about 
the Moon 5 this grew fainterand fainter, and after a few mi- 
nutes was no more vifiblejt did not feem to be caufed by any 
clouds or exhalations in the Air, the sky near the Moon being 
'f.ery clearjand the faid colours not appearing any where , but 
upon the dusky part of its P/^^j.Poffibly it might be caufed by^ 
the Refradion of the light from the Sun through the Atmof- 
pheie aboutihe Earth. 
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