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was then on a vifit to colonel Coote. This indeed was 
a Hying obfervation, or taken, as the French would 
fay, en paffant, being unprovided with a neceflary 
apparatus. I had luckily adjulted (very carefully) my 
watch to apparent time, by the meridian line of a 
large fundial, on the noon immediately preceding the 
eclipfe : my watch in general keeps time very well, 
but it not having a hand to fhew feconds, I deter- 
mined the feconds as near as I could by the minute 
hand. Though I had fet my watch to the apparent 
time, I defpaired of making any obfervation of this 
eclipfe for want of a telefcope, for which, happen- 
ing to exprefs fome concern, not above half an hour 
before the eclipfe was to come on, captain Eifer re- 
collected he had a refleCtor, with which he immedi- 
ately obliged me : it was about 1 6 inches long, and 
in very tolerable condition, fo that I may venture to 
fay this obfervation, though not perfeCt, may be de- 
pended on to be very near the truth. 
I had not time nor conveniency to throw the Sun’s 
image on a fcreen in a darkened room 5 fo was oblig- 
ed to lay it down as near as I could by my eye. 
The following fcheme fhews the folar maculaa, as 
they then appeared : the appulfe of the Moon’s limb 
to, and it’s recefs from them, being refpeCtively noted 
by the literal references. 
N. B. I examined my watch by the meridian line 
the fucceeding noon of the eclipfe, without being a- 
ble to afcertain any fenlible error, owing doubtlefs to 
the want of a better method of making the obfer- 
vations. 
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