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entrance Into the rays of the fun. The fecond ap- 
pearance was at the comet’s getting clear of the rays 
of the fun in the morning, after the conjuncftion 
with that luminary, which was to take place a few 
days before its pafTage through the perihelion. I 
obferved it in the morning from the ift of April to 
the 17th, when it entered the rays of the fun a fe- 
cond time. The 3d appearance of the comet was 
expefted to begin a few days after the end of the 2d, 
when the comet, after being hid below the hori^^on, 
might make its appearance above it j 1 began to 
fee it again on the 29th of April in the evening, 
but could not take Its pofition becaufe of the clouds. 
1 went on obferving it till the 3d of June at night, 
when 1 faw it no more. It was then in the fextant. 
'In this laft appearance of the comet above the ho- 
rizon, it was obferved by mofl of the aflronomers 
in Europe. 
More minute accounts of this comet will be feen 
in a mcmoirwhich I haveprefentedto the Royal Aca- 
demy of Sciences at Paris, together with two celeflial 
maps fliewing the trad of the comet through the fixed 
ftars during its appearance, which I have traced ex- 
actly by my obfervations. There is likewife annexed 
to this memoir a colledion of all the obfervations 
which have been made of this comet, by my own and 
Mr. De L’lfle’s correfpondents. Thefe obfervations 
have been taken, at the Hague by Mr. Dirck de 
Klinkenberg, at Leyden by Mr. Lulof, at Montpel- 
pellier by Mr. de Ratte, at Avignon by Father Mo- 
rand, at Vienna by the Rev. Father Hell, at Leipfick, 
at Rome, at Cadiz by Mr. Godin, at Lifbon by 
Father Chevalier, and at Pondicherry in the Eall 
Indies by Father Coeurdoux. 
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