* 
( i'6") 
"by a Quadrant of > Foot Radius for taking theSun’s Alti- 
rude. By this Tnftrument he has determined the Height of 
•the Pole at Upfall 59 0 .! 5 l' And by the fame, a little be- 
fore the Beginning of the Eclipfe he found the Height of 
Sun 39 0 . 36'. 42". hisClocks then (hewing the Hour rx h . 
■47'. 50", which proves that they were very near the true 
Time. Ac x h . 58'. 15". the Altitude of the Sun being 
44°. 17'. 29", was the Beginning of the total Darknefs, 
and ac xi h . z. 24 * was the End thereof, alto / ole 44°. 
29'. 13". fo that here the Duration of the total Eclipfe 
was 4'. 9'', and the Middle thereof but one third of a 
Minute after Eleven. And laftly the End is faid to have 
happen’d about 4 Minutes before Noon, the Sun being 4.5 0 . 
42'* 6". high : But in this is amanifeft Miftake, for it 
makes the Time of Emerfion, or from the Middle to the 
End, but 55'. 20"; whereas being (b near the Meridian, 
’tis certain that this Emerfion was the greater part of the 
Duration of the whole Eclipfe, and confequently more 
than an Hour. Perhaps the Times might be deduced 
from the Altitudes only, and then the Miftake might be 
in fuppofingthe End fo much before Noon as it was re- 
ally after it. However, to- prevent all Doubts, we have 
compared this Obfervation with what we obferved of 
this Eclipfe at London , and find that in the Latitude of 
59° 50', the Place where the Middle of total Darknefs 
was at xi h . o'. 20", was near 19 Degrees more Eafterly 
than London ('that is exactly in the Meridian of Dantzick ) 
and that the Eclipfe began there at ix h . 52' ~ , and ended 
at xi i h . 10'. Wherefore the Duration could not be 2 h . 7'. 
50", as the Editor of the Paid Mouvelles has publifti’d ; 
not confidering that the Beginning could not be (een for 
Clouds, as in the very next Words he allures us. 
As to the Darknefs, At was fuch that they could fcarce 
ciiftinguifii one another: andbefides Jupiter, Mercury and 
Venus 5 of the Fixe Stars Caffiopca^ Capella , Oculus Tauri and 
Gjdon, (Sirius not beingyet rifeti) were vifible. If. 
