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which Saturn is at this Time very near, and after the 
fame Method I fettled its Place, ineante Anno 1690, (the 
Epoch of the Britijh Catalogue) in 29 0 ' 34' of 
Scorpio with 2 0 o' North Latitude. By this it will 
appear, how defe&ive the obferved Place of Saturn 
is (fated in Riccioli , there being above feven Minutes 
erred in the Latitude thereof. 
II. Objervation of a Parhelion, 061 . 2 6 th } 1721. 
©jy the fame. 
T HIS Morning, 26th of OBober , being on the 
River coming up to London, about half an Hour 
paft Ten, the Sun being then about twenty Degrees 
high, I obferved a Circle about the Sun, which is by 
no means unufual, when the Air in chilly Weather, 
fuch^as it is now, is replete with fnowy Particles $ 
which Circle was of the Size it always appears in, a- 
bout 23 Degrees from th^Sun, and faintly ting’d with 
the Colours of the Iris . When this Circle happens, I 
always look out, to fee whether any other of the Phe- 
nomena that fometimes attend it did at that Time ap- 
pear, fuch as Parhelia , and other colour’d Circles, con- 
centrick with the Sun, and fometimes, as once I faw it, 
excentrick j as alfo a white Circle round the Zenith , 
in equal Altitude with the Sun: But this Time, the 
Air being thickned with a hazy Vapour, and the Smoke 
of the Town, [ could only fee to the Eaflward a lu- 
minous white Patch, which for about twenty Minutes 
fhone;through the thick Air very confpicuoully, of a- 
bout two Degrees diameter, as near as I could effimate it, 
and about the fame Altitude with the Sun : and from 
it, towards the Sun, there feemed to proceed a long 
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