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means of the equatorial inftrument with a , /3, and g 
corvi j whence its right afcenfion, at 8 h. 45 m. 
mean time, comes out 15-9° yy ' 9", and its fouth 
declination 25 0 y2" 14". 
Wednefday, May 2d, obferved it again at Mr. 
Siffon’s in the Strand, with a fedlor of 5 feet radius, 
• and compared it with corvi ; whence, at 9 h .6 m. 
mean time, its right afcenfion 158° 47' 37", and its 
fouth declination 2a 0 i(/ 23 // . The increafing moon 
had now much weakened the light of the comet, 
fo that the tail and nucleus could not be diftinguifhed 
as laft night. 
I think I may now venture to pronounce this to 
be the fame as the comet of 1602 j and am about 
making out its future track. If I prefume rightly, 
it will in a fhort time become in a manner ftationary, 
but diminifh very faft both in fize and light j the 
earth and it both receding from each other almoft in 
a right line. It is at this time about four times 
nearer to the earth than the fun is. 
May 3. 1759* 
J. Bevis. 
An Account of the fame Comet : By Nicolas 
Munckley, Bfq\ Communicated by Ni- 
colas Munckley, M. D . F. R. S. 
Read May 3, r a H E firft certain view I had of any 
* 759 * JL appearance, which could be the 
expected comet, was on the evening of the 30th of 
April, about S. S. W. a little lower than the middle 
®f Hydra. But I did not attempt to determine its 
place 
