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I. Some Accounts of the late great Solar Eclipfe on 
April 22. 1715- mane. Communicated to the 
Royal-Society from abroad . 
S ince the Publication of the large Account we gave in 
Thil Tranf. No 343 of what was obferved in En- 
gland, and particularly at London , of this Eclipfe, we 
have received from foreign Parts the following Obferva- 
tions ; which feem not unworthy the Acceptance of the 
Curious. And fird Mr. John Edens, who has obliged us 
with the following mod particular Relation of the Pike 
of Teneriff and of the Afcent thereto, being on his Voy- 
age to that lfland, obferved the Eclipfe at Sea, in Lati* 
tude, by Obfervation 34 0 . zo', and Longitude o h , 54'. 
Weft from London, as he concluded by their Diftance and 
Pofition from the Ifland Forte venture, which they foon 
after fell with He writes that it began at vi h . 49'. and 
ended atvm h . 47'- this latter very exadtly, tho’ not quite 
fo nice as to the beginning. 
Had this Obferver flgnified what Difference of Meridi- 
ans there was found between the Place of Obfervation and 
the Weft End cf Forte ventura , we might, without fenfi- 
bie Error, have concluded the true Longitude, not only 
of that Ifland, but aifo of the Pike of Teneriff, where 
Our Geographers and the Dutch have fixed their fird Me- 
ridian. But this Gentleman being both able and defi- 
rous to render the Publick this fort of Service, we hope 
from him fetch further Obfervations as may put the matter 
pad difpute. He adds -that the greated Darknefs was 
about 7 of the Sun’s Diameter, or nine Digits on the 
North fide. w .t 
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