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go ofF the Paper aboat 30° 
from its lower Vertex to 
h . / the Eafl. 
9 25 20 Mr. Appleton faw the 
Shadow go off the Paper 
fix’d to the College Brafs 
Quadrant at his Houfe. * 
Mr. Owen Harris 3 an in- 
genious Schoolmafter in 
Boflon , fays he obferved 
* the End at about 26' p, 9. 
* f . j ) ; j 4 l * . | 4 y \ » i 2 ■ * \ 
By the fecond Obfervation the Sun’s Diameter was 
to the Moon’s As 1000 to 972 ^ by the third, As 
1000 to 975. At Boflon the Eclipfe was obferved, 
allowing for its Diftance, as 1 obferved it at the Col- 
lege. And at Barnflable , on Cape Cod , there was 
but a little left of the Sun, and nearer the Head of 
the Cape there was a Ring of Light quite round the 
Moon. 
The Telefcope I made my Obfervations by is 24 
Feet long. The Telefcope that Mr. Danfort h ufed, 
thro* which the Rays were tranfmitted, was 8 Feet, 
and the Brafs Quadrant the very fame Dr. Halley 
ufed at St, Helena . If I have been guilty of any Mi- 
flake pardon me, and if, with eafe, you could tell 
me where the Shadow would pafs ofF America , I 
fhould be glad, for I made it to be about Cape Cod . 
Taking its Latitude to be 40° North, or 40° io* and 
Eafl from the College 10^ or 15^ I forget which. 
J (hall now give you an Account of a remarkable 
Accident relating to the Venom of Spiders. Sept. 13. 
1722 one Hat • Ware of Needham was bit by a 
fmall Spider, which lie could not give an exad De- 
fcription of, crufhing it to Pieces between his Stock- 
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