C 596 3 
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The Beginning prccifely at . - 8 37 3 $ 
Beginning of the Annulus at . . 10 o 10 
End of the Annulus at . . . 10 5 10 
End of the E clip fe at . . . 11 29 30 
By comparing his Obfcrvation with that fent him 
by Mr. Irwine at Elgin-, he imagines his Clock was 
not jfa to true Time, fince there is fo great a Differ- 
ence, and more than the Difference of Longitude be- 
tween the two Places will allow 5 it being no more 
than 2 6 computed Miles, and nearly in the lame Pa- 
rallel of Latitude. 
Mr. Murdock Mackenzie (who has for Lome 
Years pad been making a Survey of the Iflands of 
Orkney , and whofe Abilities for fuch an Undertaking 
give us Hopes he will for the future free Navigators 
of a great many melancholy Di farters, which for- 
merly happened in thofe Seas, thro’ the Want of 
true Charts) made the following Obfervation at 
Kirkwall in the Ifland of Tomona in Orkney , the 
Latitude of which is 58° y8' N. 
h f 
Beginning of the Eclipfe about . . 8 40 
End of the Eclipfe about . . n 37 
He fays, that, by reafon of Clouds, he could not 
be perfectly exaa, as to the precife Time of Begin- 
ning or Ending , but adds, that the Beginning can- 
noAae more than 4' wrong, nor the End more than 
2 > m He fays, he is fure he did not fee it annular, 
but that there remained about 4 or 4 of the Sun s 
Circumference intercepted at the Middle of the 
Eclipfe* 
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