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June 3, 7 9 59 I perceived’ a fudden boiling ot 
tremor at the very fummit of 
* the Sun’s limb, very different 
from what we ufually call an 
undulation of his limb : 8 
107 or 9'' after which, I called 
out 720 wl upon difeerning, at 
the fame place, a very Imall 
indentation of Venus. I 
think I may put the external 
contact about 3'' fooner. 
28 8 The Planet feemed quite en- 
tered upon the difk, her up- 
per limb being tangential to 
that of the Sun : but, inftead 
of a thread of light, which I 
expected immediately to ap- 
pear between them, I per- 
ceived Venus to be dill con- 
joined to the Sun’s limb by a 
fender kind of tail, nothing 
near fo black as her dilTc, and 
fliaped like the neck of a Flo- 
rence flafk. 
28 17 The faid tail vaniflicd at once, 
and, for a few feconds after, 
the limb of Venus, to which 
it had been joined, appeared 
more prominent than her 
lower limb, fornewhat like 
the 
