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Bradley. Obfervations ! made by one of the greated 
adronomers, and by the bed; and mod: accurate ob- 
ferver, abided by the bed and mod accurate indru- 
ments, which are in any obfervatory : But alas ! the 
public are hitherto deprived of the ufe of thefe mod 
excellent obfervations*. 
In a former paper which I had the honor to give 
into the Royal Society, concerning the parallax of 
the Sun, I therein aliumed the difference of longi- 
tude between Greenwich and Paris to be ~g' 10" ; 
and as the determination of this difference is now 
more certain by the trandts of Mercury above men- 
tioned, being found — g' 16" ; and as this difference 
of longitude will make fome fmall difference in the 
refult of the faid parallax from the obfervations made 
at all thofe places -f-, which are to the ead of Green- 
wich, where the late trandt of Venus was obferved: 
I have therefore computed them again, and they are 
as in the following fynoptic table. 
* On Thurfday following, being the 9th of June, a motion 
•was made, at the meeting of the Royal Society, by the Rev. 
Nevil Mafkelyne, F. R. S. and unanimoufly agreed to, recom- 
mending it to their Council, as vifitors of the Royal Obfervatory, 
to take proper meafures for obtaining and fecuring the aftrono- 
mical obfervations, that have been made there in times paft, for 
the benefit of the publick : It was alfo agreed on to publifh them, 
when obtained, at the expence of the Society ; and for the fu- 
ture, to publifh the obfervations made at the Royal Obfervatory 
annually, in the Philofophical Tranfadlions. 
f Becaufe the longitudes of all thofe places were taken from 
the Connoijfance des Temps ^ and the' Swedtjb in which then- 
differences of longitude from Paris are marked down. 
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