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yet he wns loth to call in quejiion the truth of them, hut 
preserved always a jufl veneration for them:) He had, 
(partly to gratulate the Authors puhli/h ing of his oBferva- 
tions, and partly to fatisfy his own fcruples,) underta^n 
that journy 'y which he now Iqo\s upon as no [mall hap^ 
pynefs i and declares himfelf abundantly pleafedwith tt^ 
And ojfers himfelf a voluntary witnefs, (of the ahnofl^ 
incredible certainty of thofe his Inflrumentsf) againfl all 
who Jh all for the future call his obfervations in queflion. 
As having feen, with his own Eys^ not one or two, but a 
multitude of obfervations of the fixed Stars^ performed 
with his great Brafs Sextant, (even by divers Obfervers^ 
and by himfelf Jometimes, though lefs expert therein^) be^ 
ing again and again repeated-^ mofi accurately , and aU 
mofl incredibly to agree ; and never to differ more 
than by an inconfider able part of a Minute. With fur- 
ther expreffions of foy, and Admiration i as wondering 
at nothing more, than to find themfo accurate. 
The Author being by thefe Obfervations, confirmed 
in his refolution of adhering to Bare Sights with his 
Naked Ey ("without glaffes J and having latisfyed Mr. 
Nally as to the Certainty and Accuratenefs thereof ("far 
beyond what Mr. Hally could exped: i ) thought fit in 
the ^iv&i^\2iCQ {2ikQX h\% %iachina Cselejiis ) to publilli thefe 
ffor the (atisfadionof others) to preferve the juft re- 
putation of his obfervations before publiflied, which 
Mr. HooJ^ had endeavoured to render fufpeded. 
He therefore gives us firft, his obfervations of the year 
i<J79. beginning from fan, ?>.St. n, (where his Machina 
Coelefiis ended;) and fo onwards till May 26, when 
Mr. Hally arrived. And therein famongtt othersjthe 
Tranfit of fome Stars, and the Occultation of lome o- 
thers, by the Mook: Mar, 2^- Mar. 30. 
From thence to iS. we have an account of all 
his obfervations made together with Mr. Hally, watk 
the fuccefs thereof. And (amongfl the reft) of the oc- 
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