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the phafis at the greateft obfcuration ; a clear fky is 
much to be wifhed for : and it might be proper to 
have obfervers placed about ten or twelve miles from 
one another, all the way between Greenwich and 
Deal, that the truth may be found by obfervation. 
For, if Meyer’s tables are right, all the others muft 
want much correction. 
About five years ago, I delineated the path of the 
Moon’s fhadow over all the parts of the earth, where 
it will pafs in this eclipfe, from fun-rifing till fun- 
fetting, according to mean or equal time. I con- 
ftrudted the map much upon the fame principle with 
that of Manfredi and De la Caille, and took moft of 
the lunar elements from Meyer’s tables. 
According to this projection, the center of the pen- 
umbra will firft touch the earth at fun-rife, in the 
Atlantic Ocean, between theCaribbee Iflands and thofe 
of Cape Verd ; in 47 degrees weft longitude from 
Greenwich, and 18 degrees north latitude; from 
which it will go on, almoft parallel to the equator, 
for about 20 degrees eaftward : then it will bend 
north- eaft ward, and pafs over the fouth of Portugal, 
near Cape St. Vincent : from thence, in its progrefs, 
it will go over Valadolid, crofs the Bay of Bifcay a 
little weft of Bayonne, pafs over Rochelle, then mid- 
way between Rouen and Paris, go over Holland a 
little weft of Amfterdam, crofs the German Sea a- 
bout 40 miles weft of the mouth of the river Elbe, 
enter Denmark, crofs the Baltic by Gottenburg, tra- 
vel over Sweden weft of Stockholm, pafs clofe by 
the weft fide of the Gulph of Bothnia, go a little weft 
of Torneo, enter the Frozen Sea at Wardhuys, crofs 
over to Nova Zembla, and a little to the eaft thereof 
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