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“ fiderable time before funfet, it was fo cloudy, that 
“ the planet could not be difcerned. So that I made 
“ no obfervations of confequence except that of the 
beginning, at which time the Sun was perfedly 
“ clear. This tranfit compleats three periods of 
“ 46 years, fince the firft obfervation of Gaflendi at 
Paris, in 1631.” 
I am, SIR, 
With great efteem. 
Your moft obedient fervant, 
B, Franklin* 
IV. Ohfer.^ 
