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XXXVII. All Account of an Obfervation 
of the Tran ft of Venus, made at Iflc 
Coudre near Q^iebec. In a Letter to 
the Revereiid Nevil Mafkelyne, Afronomer 
Royal^ fro7ti Mr, Thomas Wright, De- 
puty Surveyor of the Northern DifriEi of 
America. 
Quebec, June 15, 1769. 
Sir, 
Read Noy.'6,T WAS prevented landing at the bay 
X of Gafpee, as I purpofed (by blowing, 
thick weather) ; but, however, 1 had the good for- 
tune to reach the ifland of Coudre, where 1 landed 
With all my apparatus, the 30th of May j and took 
up my abode at a houfe well lituated, in every relped:, 
for my purpofe. The next morning I had a car- 
penter, who fixed my clock, very firm and perpen- 
dicular, againfi; a beam of the houfe. I immediately 
fet It a-going by my watch, which had not been fet 
to true time for almofi: a fortnight ; but, however, I 
doubt not but that the following oblervations of cor- 
refponding altitudes will fliew exadlly the time as 
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