[ 4<5 3 
Kent, Dec. 19. 1741. communicated in a 
Letter from the Rev d Mr. H. Miles, to 
John Eames, F. R. S. and an Account of the 
fame , as feen by Mrs. Tennifon at Canter- 
you my very hearty Thanks ; particularly for the Ho- 
nour you put on my brief Acount of the Height of 
the Liquors in my Thermometers, * in communicating 
it to the Royal Society. 
As no one willies the Profperity of that illuftrious 
Body more truly than I do, I fhoald think myfelf 
happy, were I able to do any thing to promote the 
Defign of it, or to gratify any of its worthy Members. 
I have inclos'd a Draught of the ‘Parhelia feen in 
Kent the 1 9th of ‘December laft, as I took it from a 
private Letter fent from thence to a Gentleman in 
this Town : The Writer of the Letter is not fo par- 
ticular in his Account of it as could be wifh’d : His 
Words were to this Purpofe : “ As to the Appearance 
“ of the Mock-Suns on the 19th of December , I have 
“ inclos’d a Scheme, fuch as I could draw, in which 
tC you may obferve S is the Sun, Z the Zenith' — a a 
“ an inverted Rainbow of the rnoft lively Colours; 
<c the Mock- Suns dd were fometimes almoft too 
tc bright to lock upon, and then they feem’d round, 
* See above, p. 20. 
SIR , 
Read Feb. if. 
1741-2. 
I Had Ycflerday 
the 23d Inftai 
erday the Favour of yours of 
Inllant, for which I return 
“ but 
