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cc the clock, whenever he ftiould call to him j 
“ in which refpecft, he is of opinion, he made 
“ no miftake, though, poftibly, he might make 
“ one with regard to the minute, by letting down 
t( one too many at the egrefs ; which he now 
“ thinks there is fome caufe to believe he did.” 
J. B. 
XXXVIII. Obfervations on the fame Tranfit\ 
and on an Eclipfe of the Moon , May 8, 
1761; and of the Sun , on the 3 d of June 
1761 : In a Letter to the Rev . Thomas 
Birch, D. D . Secretary to the Royal So- 
ciety, from Mr. Peter Wargentin, Secretary 
to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Sweden, 
and F. R. S. 
Read Nov. i i, 
1761. 
L itters hifce inclufae, ad te et clarif- 
fimum Dollondium fcriptae, quas 
amicus meus, Dominus Klingenftierna ( principis 
Suec. haereditarii praeceptor) tranfmittendas mihi tra- 
didit, occaftonem mihi luppeditant, paucis te invi- 
fendi, tibique communicandi obfervationes nonnullas 
aftronomicas, nuper a me habitas, in obfervatorio 
Stockholmienfi, cujus elevatio poli eft 59 0 20' 31", 
differentia autem meridian, ab obfervatorio Greno- 
vicenfi i h 12' 1". 
Si illas dignas judicaveris, quae illuftriftimae Socie- 
tati Regiae ofterantur, erit id mihi gratifiimum. Quid- 
quid 
