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difcerncd hv the Eve, though shifted with a fmoaked 
Glafs, till about this Time. 
I obferved the Progrefs of the Eclipfe by a Helio- 
fcope; but after io Digits were eclipfed, I returned to 
the Telefcope, to attend the Beginning of the annular 
Appearance. A little before the Annulus was com- 
plete, a remarkable Point or Speck of pale Light ap- 
peared near the Middle of the Part of the Moon’s Cir- 
cumference, that was not yet come upon the Disk of 
the Sun 5 and a Gleam of Light, more faint than this 
Point, feemcd to be extended from it to each Horn: 
I did not mark the precife Time when I firft perceived 
this Light, but am iatisfied that it could hardly be lefs 
than one fourth of a Minute before the annular Ap- 
pearance began. Mr. Short (who was in another 
Chamber at fome Diftance, and made ufe of a larger 
Telefcope) allures me that he faw it 20 Seconds before 
the Annulus was completed ; and this is confirmed 
by a Call that was then heard from the Chamber where 
he was, of which I did not underftand the Meaning 
till we met afterwards, and upon which the Perfon 
who made our Signals was about to fire, if I had not 
forbid him. I was furprized with this Light at firft, 
and did not immediately recoiled that it proceeded 
probably from the fame Crown that was feen about 
the Moon in a total Eclipfe of the Sun at Naples in 
i6oy j and was obferved by many in different Parts of 
Europe in the three late total Eclipfes of 1706, 1717 
and 1724,. I did not exped to have feen this Light, 
when fo much of the Sun's Disk was uncovered 5 but 
as 1 kept only fo much of the Disk in the Telefcope as 
was necelfary for afeertaining the Time of the Forma- 
tion of the Annulus, this muft have contributed to 
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