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XXIV. An Ohfervation of an Eclipfe of the 
Sun at the If and of New-found -land, 
Augufi 5, 1766, by Mr. James Cook, 
with the Longitude of .the Place of Obfer- 
vation deduced from it : Communicated by 
J. Bevis, M. D. F. R. *SV 
Read- April 30, Tfc >r R. Cook, a good mathematician, 
I 7 J /- JVa and very expert in his buftnefs, 
having been appointed by the Lords Commifiioners 
of the Admiralty, to furvey the fea coafts of 
New-found-land, Labradore, &c. took with him a 
very good apparatus of inftruments, and among them, 
a brafs telefcopic quadrant made by Mr. John Bird. 
Being, Auguft 5, 1766, at one of the Burgeo 
Iflands near Cape Ray, latitude 47 0 36' 19", the 
fouth-weft extremity of New-found-land, and having 
carefully re&ihed his quadrant, he waited for the 
eclipfe of the fun ; juft a minute after the beginning 
of which, he obferved the zenith diftance of the funs 
upper limb 31° 57' 00"; and, allowing for refraction 
and his femidiameter, the true zenith diftance of the 
fun’s centre 32 0 13' 30", from whence he concluded 
the eclipfe to have begun at o h 4' 48" apparent time, 
and by a like procefs to have ended at 3 11 45' zb" 
apparent time. 
N. B. There 
