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above the horizon. All I could do towards afcer- 
taining its pofition, was to eftimate it with refpedt to 
the new ftar of the day before, N° 20. 
The 9th, at 4^ 23' in the morning, I again faw 
the comet through fome thin clouds j but the fhort- 
nefs of the time it was vihble did not permit me to 
take its pofition. 
The loth, I ith, 12th, and 13th, in the morning, 
the clouds prevented my feeing the comet ; but hav-. 
ing on the 13th removed my inflruments to a place 
ftill better fituated than the turret of the college, 
though in the neighbourhood, I carried on my ob- 
fervations there till the 2d of May. 
April 14, in the morning, I faw the comet again, 
the iky being very clear, without a cloud, and I was 
only obfi:rud;ed by the great light of the moon, which 
had pail the full on the 12th at one in the af- 
ternoon. The brightnefs of this and the twilight 
prevented my feeing the comet at its firil rifing. I 
could fee nothing of it till three quarters paft three, 
when it was got about 4** above the horizon. It 
was hardly to be feen, and the nucleus could not be 
difiinguifiied from the coma, fo that the comet 
looked but like a faint round fpeck of light. It was 
then near the fiars of the 3d and 4th magnitude, 
called by Bayer y and ^ of the tail of Capricorn, 
pretty clofe to the weilermofi: of thefe two ftars. 1 
had not time to take the diflance by the micrometer, 
the twilight having quickly made the comet difap- 
pear. All I was able to do, whilft it was vifible, 
was to determine its fituation with tolerable exadtnefs, 
by means of the differences, azimuths, and heighths 
of the comet, and the two ftars of Aquarius’s flioul- 
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