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gining it was material, I had not been careful to mark 
to lingle minutes. At ih 22', its diftance from Rigel 
was 7 0 6'; at i h 24', from Betelgeufe 1 5° 53'; and 
at i' n 36', its di fiance from Sirius was 17 0 36'. 
This will be fufficient for you to find its place by. 
The obfervations, together with above twenty others, 
were made with a little Hadley’s quadrant, and may 
moft of them, I believe, be depended on to about 
two or three minutes j but fome perhaps may err 
four or five minutes. 
I am, Sir, 
Your obedient fervant, 
Cambridge, Jan. 9, 1760. John Michtll 
XLIII. An Actount of the fame Comet ; by 
Nicolas Munckley, of Lincoln's-Inn, £/y- 
Read Jan. 17, "TAnuary 9, 1760, I obferved what ap« 
170 J peared to me to be evidently a comet, 
weft of the conftellation of Orion, or (to fpeak more 
aftronomically and exadbly) over the two ftars marked 
p and v in the river Eridanus, but nearer the latter 
than the former ; right afeenfion, about 66 deg. de- 
clination, about 3 deg. S. It was fomething dimmer 
and larger than either of thefe ftars ; and through a 
telefcope, appeared magnified, and furrounded with 
a broad, faint, ill-defined hazinefs, like the laft 
comet, fuch as plainly diftinguifhed it from any 
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