(6*3) 
SV#/e Obfervations 
Concerning the Comet ? t/.?^ hath lately appear d in fa- 
rain parts ^ communicated from Italy and Portugal. 
7 he Italian Account, given by Gio. Domen. Caffini, tt?£ 
ANnoi668. the 10 th of March h.i. of the following night, 
(after the Italian way of counting) at Bononia, Iobferved 
a path of Light extended from the Whdle through Bridams 5 
which I judged to be the Train of a C$met boih by the Figure and 
Colour, as alfo becaufe that the dire&ion of it, being by the 
Fancy continued, feem'd to proceed unto the 2 i v degr. of Pifces, 
where the Sun then was^ and fo tended to the part oppofit to the 
$un> like other Comets. By its extreme poinHtreached to that 
Star in Eridanus^ which is called the Fourteenth by Sayerus t But 
it ilfued out of the Horizontal Clouds, fo« that I thought, the 
Head of the Comet was either vailed by them, or hid under the 
Horizon. It followed the Motion of diurnal revolution Weft- 
vi ard 5 and it was to be feen about the fecond hour of the night j 
for then it was demerfed in the mifts of the Horizon. 
Not far from its pointed end Eaftward, there appeared a Star, 
equal to : the brighteft of the Fourth magnitude y alttfoft in the 
fame place, where was obferv'd the Comet of A. 1664. Decemb. 
31. which Star was not then feen, nor at other times clfewhere, 
nor is defcribed in any Catalogue, on any Globe or Map, that I 
can learn - 3 which therefore I deem to be a New one, that is, of 
new appearance, 
March 1 1. at even the Horizon was in the Weft overaft with 
thin Clouds-, among which after one hour of the night, there 
was feen a Brightness in the whale , at leaft for half an hour, 
which was very like the fplendour of Venus 0 likewife vailed by 
thin clouds. 
March 12, at nighty the lower pJrts of the Heavens in the Weft 
were clouded , 2nd when the Great Dog-ftar was in the Mid- 
heaven, the fame Tail appeared again. It paffed through the Star 
in Bridanus, which Bayerus calls the 15th, and left to the South- 
Eeee 2 ward 
