C 1'9 3 
mur, cujus tubus opticus pedem Anglicum vixxqua- 
bat. Ex verticalibus itaque cum Comets, turn Vene- 
ris altitudinibus eodem tempore obfervatis, verticales 
utriufque differentias collegimus, quas hie damus. 
Die. P.#M. Differ. Vert. 
H. M. * * M. 
20 7 Gr. f 2 2 
22 7 oo Gr. 3 y6 
23 7 20 Gr. 3 13 
24 6 iy Gr. 2 ,30 
2y 7 30 Gr. 1 47 
Cometse Cauda die 22. Ver- 
ticale Micrometri filum per- 
tranfiens horarium minutum 
cum Sec. 7. impendebat. Mi- 
crometrum autem laudato Cam- 
pani Telefcopio applicitum erat. 
H. M. 
O / 
Die 24. 8 
Die 27. f 
3 Venus, & Cometa appa- 
rebant.fub Angulo 
70 Apparebant fub Angulo 
} Gr - 7 3f 
Gr. 8 y 
3. Obfervations upon ^Cornet feen in]zsmaxy and 
February 1736-7. ofan Eclipfe of the Sun, 
*Feb. 18. 1736-7. ^ Philadelphia /» Penfyl- 
vania, mclofed in a Letter from L)r. -Kearfly to 
Mr. Peter Collinfon, F. R. S. 
O N the 27th of January laft, about Six in the 
Evening, I Paw ..a dull Star about 3 or 4 Degrees 
above Mercury y and a little to the Southward of a 
Vertical paffihg through but took little Notice of; 
it then, not thinking of a Comet 5. but. by comparing 
§'s Place with' the Fixt Stars, I afterwards thought it 
might be a Comet. On the 31ft, about 6 Ho. 30 
Min. P. M. I took its Diftance from Venus , by a re- 
fk&ing Inftrument of Mr. Hadley % Make, 14 Deg. 
4 ° 
