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I have laved all the obfervations I have made, and 
the work of them, which I fhould have fent you a 
complete copy of, if I had been well enough to have 
tranicribed them. 
I am, 
Yours, 
John Horiley. 
“ Mr, Horfley, whofe fkill and diligence are bet- 
44 ter evinced by his own account than by any enco- 
“ miums I can give them, made ufe of a quadrant 
" made by Mr. Bird, and my Britifh Mariner’s 
41 Guide, for determining the longitude of the fhip 
“ at fea. 
• N. Mafkelyne. 
LV. A?i Accoimt of a remarkable Meteor 
feen at Oxford, April 23, 1764. In a 
Fetter to the Rev. Thomas Birch, D. D. 
Secretary to the Royal Society, from the 
Rev. John Swinton, B. D. F. R. S. Mem- 
ber of the Academy degli Apatifti at Flo- 
rence, and of the Etrufcan Acadet?iy of 
Cortona in Tufcany. 
Good Sir ; 
Read Dec. 1 3, TT AV I N G taken a turn on the Parks, 
jt~l or Public Univerfity-walk here, on 
Monday April 23, 1764, towards the decline of the 
afternoon ■, I made a vifit to a friend in town, with 
whom 
