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Ho. Min. Sec. 
4 f2 57 The Chord between the Cufps 1057 
ff 00 The Chord 9^4 
5 6 3 2 The Chord 8fi 
19 34 The Chord 632 
Then a Cloud cover’d the upper Limb, and pre- 
vented a Sight of the ending, which was loon after. 
Between twelve and one o’Clock, I meafur’d the 
Diameter of the Sun with a Micrometer. At the 
time of the greateft Obfcuration, the lucid Part of the 
Sun’s Diameter was equal to 392 fuch Parts as his 
whole Diameter contain’d 2188. 
I had a Tranfit of the Sun at Noon, and of Sirius 
at Night, which, compar’d with preceding ones, I 
found my Clock went too fail for mean Solar Time, 
about one Second in a Day. 
2. The fame Eclipfe obferved at the Royal Obferva - 
tory at Greenwich, in Company with 'Dr. Edm, 
Halley, by Dr. j. Bevis. 
Apparent Time. 
Ho. Min. Sec. 
At 2 2f 39 P. M. The Beginning, 
f 03 29 The End. 
At the End, the Sun’s Limb appear’d fomewhat 
tremulous, and a fmaii thin Cloud came over it. Dr. 
Bevis judged the Time might be relied on to two or 
three Seconds. 
3. An 
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