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CIV. An Account of the Eclipfe of the Sun, 
October 16, 1762, in a Letter from Mr . 
Samuel Dunn, to Mr. James Short, M. A. 
and F. R. S. 
S I R, 
Read Dec. 1 6, A L T H 0 ’ the morning promifed fo 
1/oz ' XjL favourable for feeing the Solar 
Eclipfe of this day, the dark dill clouds which were 
near the horifon, and extended to a confiderable 
altitude, prevented almod all obfervation. Saturday 
noon October 1 6th, I fet a pendulum clock to folar 
time by the Sun’s tranfit over the meridian, and fo it 
went on till Sunday noon 17th, when it had got 8" 
of folar time, from which I conclude the clock was 
6" too fad for folar or true time at the time of 
the eclipfe. At 7 11 14/ 24." per clock I fird faw the 
upper part of the Sun thro’ a Gregorian refledtor mag- 
nifying 55 times, the upper Eadern limb of the 
Sun appearing eclipfed and the limb of the Sun in a 
date of undulation, but the limb of the Moon more 
fo, with the irregularities of the lunar mountains 
fometimes well defined between the fits of vibration. 
At 7 h 30' per clock I applyed a fix foot Newtonian 
refledtor with its magnifying power no inverting 
the objedt in order to obferve the contadt of the Moon’s 
limb to one of the folar fpots, and at y h 36' 5b 7 ' the 
fpecked penumbra which furrounded a pretty large 
fpot on the upper inverted part of the Sun was touch- 
ed by the Moon’s limb, the body of this fpot being 
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