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Eclipfe beg. tr. time at 3 48 16 
end. at -5 o 56! 
* mid. at 4 24 36 
dur. at 1 12 40I 
hence the mid. | 6 
was at J J 
phafe 
whence the 1 
eel. incr. for J 5 5 / 
of 
time in which the Sun’s diam. ilium, decreafed 36" 14"'} ihere- 
fore from the Sun’s diam. illuminated at 4 i 3 39 = 27 4 35 
take the decreafe in + 5 57 — 0 3 ^ 14 
the diam. of the Sun at the middle 
4 24 36 = 26 28 21 
which taken from the mean diam. meaf. 1 
qi' 43" 20 ,/r gives J 
the quantity of the eclipfe, or fegment of the diameter eclipfed, 
which is 1 digit and 59', 15 of a digit, or 1 44 = 2 digits 
nearly. This eclipfe was obferved with an achromatic refradtor 
of 6 feet, and a micrometer made by Dollond. The weather 
very fine. 
The times, as computed from the Tables at the end of 
M. De la Lande’s Aftronomy. 
Beginning at 3 48 24*6 obferv. at 3 48 16 
Middle 4 25 1 1,0 — ‘ 4 24 3 6 
End 5 1 57 > 2 5 0 5 6 ’5 
Duration i 13 3 2 >6 1 12 4°>5 
Alfo the latitude of the Moon was, by observation, 16" greater 
than the tables gave it. 
difference. 
t It 
o 8,6 
0 35,0 
1 0,7 
o 52,1 
F f f 2 
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