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The end could not be feen for clouds, but the 
whole of the eclipfe may be determined from the 
above meafurements. 
The Sun’s diameter parallel to the horizon, about 
an hour before noon on the day of the eclipfe, was 
31' 59", 4, air hazy. The next day at the fame 
hour it was 31' 58 // , 6. 
addition. 
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April i a, II 00 P.M. Moon’s diameter mwured s-s 3? 49,9 
13. 6300 P.M. — - =33 M . 
10 25 oP. M, - - - — ■ = 33 20, 7 air undulating, 
14. 6 30 o P. M. * — — — - — — — s= 33 21, 6 
11 00 P.M. — . — — = 33 39, 5 air undulating. 
XVIII. Obfervation of the Eclipfe of the 
Sun, April i, 1764: In a Letter from 
Dr. John Bevis, to Jofeph Salvador, Efq; 
F. R . 
S I R, 
fcead April 5, rT|“1 H E honour you were pleafed to 
1 7 6 4 - do me by fending me an invitation 
to obferve the late eclipfe of the Sun at your houfe, 
and the accommodations I there met with, require 
that I fhould give you the bed; account I can of my 
obfervation, however imperfedt through the unfa- 
vourablenefs of the weather. 
Vol. LIII. P 
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