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Part I. Vol. LI I. 
I. /IN Account of the life of Furze in fencing the 
Banks of Rivers : In a Letter to the Reverend 
Stephen Hales, D. D. F. R. S. from the Reverend 
Mr. David Wark. p- I 
II. An Account of a remarkable Halo : In a Letter to 
the Reverend William Stukeley, M. D. F. R. S . 
from Thomas Barker, Efq\ p. 3 
III. An Account of a Meteor feen in New England* 
and of a Whirlwind felt in that Country : In a Letter 
1 to the Rev. Tho. Birch, D. D. Secretary to the Royal 
Society , from Mr. John Winthrop, Prof e for of Phi - 
■lofophy at Cambridge in New England. p. 6 
IV. A Letter from the Reverend Nevil Mafkelyne, 
A. M. Fellow of Trinity College , in the Univerfty 
of Cambridge, and F. R. S. to the Reverend Dr,. 
Birch, Secretary to the Royal Society j containing a 
Theorem of the Aberration of the Rays of Light re- 
f railed through a Lens , on account of the Imperfelhon 
of the fpherical Figure. P- l 7 
V. Ext r all of a Letter Jrom the Abbe De la Caille, of 
the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, and F. R. S. 
to William Watfon, M. D. F. R. S. recommending 
to the Reverend Mr. Nevil Malkelyne, F. R. S. to 
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