( 3°7 ) 
with Mr. Campbell, in order toaffift him in his De- 
fign of ereding an Obfervatory for the Improvement 
of Aftronomy, and the Promoting other parts of Na- 
tural Knowledge in that Ifland: But his ill State of 
Health obliging him to return into England , he 
brought with him the Original Journal of the Obfer- 
vations of the Tranfitsof two Stars (viz. Syrius & 
|3 Cants Major is) over the Meridian, compared with 
the Clock, after it was fixed up in Jamaica, as Mr. 
Graham had directed ; together with the Height of 
the Spirits of the forementioned Thermometer, upon 
the feveral Days of Obfervation,_ 
The chief of thofe Obfervations are contained in 
the following Table, the F irfl Column whereof Ihews 
the Day of the Month j the Second, the Name of 
the Star, and the Time by the Clock of its obferved 
Tranfit over the Meridian j the Third contains the 
Hour of the Day, when the Thermometer was obfer- 
ved, together with the Height of the Spirits at thofe 
Hours ; the Morning Hours being denoted by the 
letter A, and thofe of the Afternoon, by the Let- 
ter P. 
1732 
^ O Time of 
§;| Tranfit. 
CO 
Thermo- 
meter. 
Hour of 
Day. 
! 
A732 
1 
Canis 
Majoris. 
Time of 
Tranfit. 
Hour of 
Day. 
Thermo- 
meter. 
fan. 
h / " 
h 
-r 
1 Jan. 
h 
/ 
n 
h 
2 3 
P it 59 50 
io|A i4i 
{ 26 
II 
53 
35 
8 A 
20 
* 12 22 14 
91P n 
■ 
* 11 
16 
00 
2 P 
^ p 
8^ 
24 
Cloudy. 
niA 15^ 
9 “ 
I O 
7 A 
2 P 
9IP 
_ r 
*5 
H II 55 40 
*1218 4 
8ia 172 
i'j 
2 7 
/3 II 
* 11 
51 
13 
3 1 
55 
1 7 * 
83 
