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Solem, debill quadam luce, idque fub tota fere emer- 
fione, in hunc fere modum. 
Sive ilia in margine Veneris apparens, 
indedioni radiorum Solis, five refradti- 
oni in atmofphasra Veneris, fit tribuenda, 
difquirant alii. 
XXXIX. An Account of the Ohfervations 
made on the fame Franft in Sweden : In 
a Letter froin Mr. Peter Wargentin, Se- 
cretary to the Royal Academy of Sciences in 
Sweden, and F. R. S. to Mr, John Ellicot, 
F. R. S. Lr an fated from the French,. 
i 
SIR, Stockholm, Aug. 7, 1761-. 
Read Nov 12, TN a letter, dated June 8th, I commu- 
1 nicated to Dr. Birch, Secretary to the 
Royal Society, my oblervations upon the tranfit of 
Venus. Having fince received fome other good ob- 
fervations of this phasnomenon, I thought the com- 
municating them to you, would give you fome plea- 
fure. 
At Torneo in Lapland, Meflieurs Lagerborn and 
Hellant very happily obferved both the entrance and 
exit of Venus, with telefcopes of 32 and 20 feet focal 
lengths. The principal times obferved were as fol- 
lows 
Exterior 
