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that obfervation is not to be depended on, I think it 
needlefs to infert it here. The longitude of St. John’s 
is var.oufly fet down by different authors, though 
none I have met with mention the obfervations by 
which it was determined. According to Sir Jonas 
Moore, it is 52 h 50' Weft from Greenwich; and as 
his authority may be as good as any, I keep to this 
longitude till it can be afcertained by farther obferva- 
tions. I have taken meafures to procure fuch ; and 
if they fucceed, fhall be ready to communicate the 
relult. 
I viewed the Sun with great attention in the reflec- 
tor both on the 5th and 6th of June, in hopes to 
hnd a fatellite of Venus j but in vain. There were 
feveral fpots then on the Sun ; but none that I faw 
could be a fatellite. 
The variation of the needle there I found 19 0 W. 
J. Winthrop. 
REMARK. 
Mr. Short has computed the parallaxes at the egrefs 
for this obfervation at St. John’s, and by comparing this 
obfervation with that at the Cape of Good Hope (on the 
above longitude and latitude of St. John’s as fet down 
by Mr. Winthrop) he finds the parallax of the Sun, 
refulting therefrom, “ $",25. 
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