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formimmlofervmmc^ dmudm$ ^fmh^ qmf^d^ fmm^di 
dt^fednm ferml ducentomm^fed operibus fAkptHm.Juj^remum for^ 
nkem fukientihm^ Mm imfeditum. Ita^ue nihil mhi$ fer cum 
hAStenmtent^Ye limit. Grams interimtibiag§ mmtnm^ Vir 
ClmJJime^ ^rocommuniutis D. Hookii Qbfervatiomhm. fu^ m^ 
his major i eru^t imitmentQ ad wreffondentes infiituendu* Vak^ 
^meama^ 
Observations €$merning the Covati that was feeM Erafil J* 
1668. i?t March by i^. Valentin Eflance' a Jefuite, md by him 
fent toKomti where they were printed in the 9 th Italim 
Giornaie de Letcerati^ 5>/>^d'^5^i'. 3 1, 1 673. 
THis beingthe faiiieComec with that, taken notice of in 
Numb.'i^. of thefe Trafts,and our accoiinc,then given 
of the fame, being likely to receive foiiie advantage and light 
froiB thefe Obfervations, made mBraJd , and but laieiy come 
to our hands^^^e thought it wou'd not be un^acceptable to the 
Curious in England^ to fee them Englifli't out of the Italisn^ 
and here inferred. They are as followeth ^ 
There hath not been zPhmomemn this great whi'e^of which^ 
as of this, I am now going to defcribeswe have hadObfervations 
from all parts of the World, Thofe from Eurofe and ^JJia may 
beften in our 3iand ^tk Giormk. Now I have received thofe 
of America^ made in the City of Si.Sjilvadof^ in the Southern 
Latitude of 1 2 deg. 47 mi^, Likewife the jefuite f^Fietro 
farte^ Reftorof Macao^ in the Eaft-IndieSj well vers'd in mat- 
ters Aftronomical , writes to have feen the fame all along the 
coaft of Bom Speranza^ though he communicates no particu- 
lar Obfervations, becaufe he wanted Inftruments to makeac« 
curate ones^ and tofeetheH^^/jiof this Comer, 
To come then to the Brafilian Obfervations, it hapned,that 
on the ^thoi March i^6^,ijl n.)zt 7 a Clock at night, the 
Sun being then in Fifiis^ Father EJimsel began ro fee this Co- 
met a little above the Horizon from Weft to Eaft*Sou~h-Eaft* 
That which fomewhat furprifed him vvas , that at the very 
beginning it appearM in its greateft bulk, and with extraordi- 
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