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The Reverend Mr .William Derbam Re&or of Upmnfler 
in Effex and Reg See. Sod. affifled by Samuel Molyneux Efq; 
Secretary to his Royal Highnefs the Prince , and other Per- 
fons of Quality, made the following Obfervations there, 
which he has lately communicated, tf/’z, 
At 8. 7. 41 The Eclipfe began. 
8. 35. 4 6 The Moon touched the greater Spot. 
8. 34. 3 6 She touched the middle Spot. 
8. 3f. 41 She touched the third Spot. 
9. 10. 58 The total Darknefs began ona fudden, 
and Aldebaran appeared , 
9. 14. 6 The Emerfion or End of total Darknefs. 
o. 3. 8 Continuance of total Darknefs.. 
9. 42. 41 The third and lad Spot difeovered. 
10. 21. 4f The End of the Eclipfe, by a 13^ Foot' 
Glafs. 
And a little before the Beginning of the Eclipfe, he 
found the greater and preceeding Spot to be more North- 
erly than the Sun’s Center 373^ fuch Parts as the Sun’s 
Diameter was 1647, and that it followed his Wedern 
Limb o'. 43" of Time: by which data the Situation of that 
Spot is well determined. 
Our Profeflors of Adronomy in both Univerfities were 
not fo fortunate .• My worthy Collegue Dr« John Keill by 
reafon of Clouds faw nothing didindtly at Oxford but the 
End, which he obferved at ioh. 15'. so". As to the total 
Darknefs, he could only eflimate it by the fudden Change 
of the Light of the Sky 5 and reckoned its Continuance 
but 3'. 30"; which was certainly too little, the Center 
of the Shadow having without doubt pad very near Oxford. 
And the Reverend Mr. Roger Cotes at Cambridge had the 
misfortune to be oppred by too much Company, fo that, 
though the Heavens were very favourable, yet he mi&’d 
both the. time of the Beginning of the Eclipfe and that of 
total 
