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PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS,. 
Received November 23, 1 7 65- 
I. Obfervations op the Eclipfe of the Sun on 
the 1 6th of Auguft, 1765, made at 
Colombes, near Paris, at the Obfervatory 
of the Marquis of Courtenvaux, 5 ' 1 3,8 n 
North of the Royal Obfervatory , and 
20 n -x in Time to the Eaft. By M. Meffier, 
Aflronomer , Keeper of the four nals , Plans , 
and Maps belonging to the Marine tf/' France, 
Fellow of the Pwyal Society in London, 
and Member of the Society of Sciences in 
Holland ; tranflated from the French by 
Matthew Maty, M. D . Sec. R. S. 
Read Jan. 23, f a ^ H E fky was almoft continually 
1766. overcaft for many days, and very 
little hopes were left about this eclipfe ; yet it having 
in part cleared up on the afternoon of the 1 6th, I 
obferved the beginning and feveral phafes of it. 
Vol. LVI. B I had 
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