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If the firlt branch continues, it will crols the high 
road from Naples to Salerno, and throw itfelf into 
the river Sarno, and change its courfe, and may go 
as far as Stabia, as it did in the reign of Titus Vef- 
palian ; though this buried city is twelve miles from 
the top of mount Vefuviug. 
MarfeiUes, 7 Nov. 1751. 
Richard Supple. 
XLIX. An Account of the Eclipfe of the 
Moon, which happened Nov. 21, 1751 ; 
ohferved by Mr. James Short, jF. R. S. in 
Surry-ftreet. 
fcead Dec. \g,r jr ‘A HE weather was exceedingly tem- 
I75 *' peftuous, and the fky pretty much 
overcaft with clouds, fo that the following times 
cannot be depended upon to lefs than 2 minutes. 
Penumbra very vifible at 
Beginning of the eclipfe at 
End of the eclipfe at 
i | fl 
7 ?8 o 
8 60 
11 60 
The quantity of this eclipfe feemed about the mid- 
dle to be larger than according to all the tables ; 
but its quantity, tho’ the air was then exceedingly 
clear, could not be meafured in the micrometer, be- 
caufe of the high wind ; nor could the moon’s dia- 
meter be meafured, for the fame reafon. 
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