f 99} ) 
the Semiduration (this being very certain from the ob- 
fcrv’d Continuance of the Edipfe of l6Sz.) the End 
will be found to have been at London at 34'- The 
Ship was therefore in a Meridian to the Eaftwards 
of London : But (he was at that time i8o Leagues to 
the Eaftwards of the which diftance in that La- 
titude gives eleven Degrees of Longitude ; this there- 
fore being deduced from the Longitude of the Ship, 
leaves juft or one Elour, for the difference of 
Meridians between London and the Cafe. So that by 
this account the Cafe is yet nearer our Meridian than I 
had formerly made it, and nea fix Degrees nearer than 
M. De la Hire places it in his Talks. 
This Edipfe was attended with all the Circumftances 
requifite to make the Conclufion as certain as the na- 
ture of the thing will admit of: For the Moon was near- 
ly in Ferigdo and the Edipfe almoft central ; for which 
reafbns (he emerged out of the Shadow as fwiftly as 
poffible ; The Sea was very fmooth, there having been 
little Wind for above 30 Hours before; and the Moon 
was not too high to be well obferved with a ForeftafI' 
.Nor were they long at Sea before they made the Land, 
for in lefs than five Days, on the tenth of March at 
Noon, they had paft d' Agulhas the moft Southerly 
Promontory of Africa, which then bore from them 
l^orth Eafl, about feven Leagues diftant. The End of 
this Eclipse, though not vifible here, might have been 
feen in Germany, both at Narenhurg, Leiffick and Berlin, 
but we cannot learn that it was any where obferved 
there ; however our Numbers in this Cafe may be fecurs- 
Jy relied on. 
On this occafion it may not be amifs to infert an Ob- 
fervation or two I procured to be made at ih^Cape.^ by 
Mr, Alexander Brovpn a Scotch Gentleman, who went to 
refide in on our Cornpanks sccoimL He carried 
with 
