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altitude and azimuth of the Sun by day, and of the 
ftars by night ; and there were fuch exadt agreements 
found by many repeated obfervations, that no doubt 
could remain of the meridian’s being very well 
ascertained. The fame gentleman, who is juftly 
efleerned to be a very accurate obferver, and an able 
calculator, finds the latitude of Liverpool to be' 
53° 2_z' y and its longitude is generally thought to be 
three degrees weft of Greenwich, but he believes it 
to be fomewhat. lefs. 
The clock being duly adjufted by our meridian line, 
at noon, and the time being found by obfervations of 
feveral ftars in the evening of March 17, the apparent 
time of the beginning of the Moon’s eclipfe was ob- 
ferved to be at io h 27' p. m. and the end at 13 11 n'. 
On the next day, 1 calculated the time of the 
ecliptic conjunction of the Sun and Moon for April r, 
by Meyer’s, tables, as we have them publifhed by 
Mr. Mafkelyne, and then made a projection of the 
Sun’s eclipfe for that time by them, for this place, ac- 
cording to it’s latitude as determined by Mr. Holden, 
and fuppofing it’s longitude to be 3 degrees weft from 
Greenwich ; and put up this projection in the council- 
room, that it might be feen, in order to find how it 
might agree with obfervation. 
Being provided with a good refleding telefcope at 
captain Hutchinfon’s, I cut a round hole in a pafte- 
board which would go tight on the tube, and took 
the Sun’s image on a paper behind it, as large as I 
could have the image of the Sun (harp and well de- 
fined around the edge, which was included in a circle 
of 4 inches diameter. I divided the diameter into 
12 equal parts, for digits, and each digit into 4 parts, 
