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mis with the Sun v/as pafled at 7^6' 12" apparent 
' time, having perceived a fmall impreifion upon the 
Sun’s edge feveral fcconds fooner ; and the Reverend 
Mr. Clare, Fellow of St. John’s College, with the 
Fmie inftrumcnt, judged the thread of light to be 
completed at 7^ 24'' 28 •, having obferved the limbs 
to be in contadt leveral feconds fooner. 
'I'he next morning Mr. Lucas obferved the begin- 
ning of the Sun’s eclipfe at 18^ 33' 47^^ and the end 
at 20^ 18' 37'''. 
Mr. Sykes, of Brazen Nofe College, with 
an acromatic refrador of 34. feet, made by Mr. 
Dollond, firll faw Venus upon the Sun at 7’' 6 ' 
and oblerved the thread of light to be completed 
at 24' 22'k 
Mr. Shuckburgh, of Baltiol College, obferved there 
the external contadl of Venus with the Sun at 7^ 6 ' S" 
apparent time, and the internal contadl at 7'^ 24' 2^" ; 
though at 7** 23' 16''', he judged that the center of 
the Planet was removed more than its own femi- 
diameter from the Sun’s limb, or that the true inter- 
nal contadl was then adlually paft. Fie is of opinion 
that the obfervation of the completion of the thread 
of light could not be made nearer than to 8" or 10 ', 
on account of the undulation of the limbs : and he 
farther adds, that when Venus was wholly entered 
upon.the Sun, he could no longer perceive the penum- 
bra that attended the Planet before the apparent con- 
tadl ; but that in the room of it there appeared a fmall 
circle of light, fomewhat more luminous than the 
furrounding parts of the Sun. Mr. Shuckburgh alfo 
obferved the beginning of the eclipfe at 18*’ 33' 51'', 
