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Moreover, the Author took notice, that from the 
eighth to the twelfth phafis, the opaque limb of the 
Moon on the South fide, was a little rough, but about 
the Northern horn to near a fourth part of the Seg- 
ment, it was more fmooth : But when the horns of 
the Eclipfe were almoft parallel tc the Horizon, be- 
fore and after toe 15th phafis the extremity of the 
Gibbous Limb ox Mie Moon looking downward, waj 
foraewhat inligbtned, and of a kind of Saffron colour 5 
but though the Sky was free from Clouds, yet no Stars 
were vifible. Nor was even Venus itfelf vifible in the open 
air,unlefs by fome more (harp-fighted than ordinary.The 
'Author takes notice aif;, that ot many round plates, 
cut put of thick paper of divers magnitudes, differing 
from one another, five feconds, about the firft phafis, 
and after none agreed to the Limb of the Moon but 
that which was cut to a Radius orSemi-diameter ofi5'. 
30". (taking the Radius. orSemi-diameter of that of the 
Sun to be 16*. 04".) and that gradually to be fofwcird 
or augmented, that larger plates were necefTary to be 
made ufe of 5 and that about the 36th phafis none 
lefs than one defcribed of a Radius of 16'. 5", would 
agree with, or equal the appearance 5 and confequent- 
ly that the Diameter of the Moon about the end of 
the Eclipfe' did ^equalize, if not exceed that ot the 
Sun. 
To this obfervation it will not be impertinent to 
add, that in the 27th phafis , (when the obfcure 
part was 6. 6\ Digits) the body of the Moon did ob- 
fcure more than two thirds of the Sun's Limb 5 which 
is an argument that its femi-diameter at that time was 
xqual to that of the Sun. We zt Lei^ck attending on 
the moment af the (hadow's touchng tlie center©! the 
Sun both before andafter the greatefi obfeunty.were not 
fo happy, by reafon of fome impediments,as by exaftly 
taking notice of; the interfections of the peripheries,. 
