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The following is the above times, as fliewn by the 
clock, reduced to apparent time, by allowing a 
proportion of 57 feconds, its regular lofing in 24 
hours 5 as appears by the preceding and the fol- 
lowing correiponding altitudes. 
\ ’ '> t . n h / /' 
2 49 22 17 32 = 2 31 30 
2 50 23 17 ^ 2 -=Z 2 32 53 
3 7 48 17 31=2 50 17 
3 8 19 17 3I2Z2 50 48 
apparent time of the ift obfervaticm. 
apparent time of the 2d obfervation.' 
ap. time of i ft obf. of internal contadl. 
ap. time of 2d obf. of internal contafl. 
The appearance of Venus at the in- 
ternal conta( 5 t, when joined by a fmall 
thread to the Sun’s limb ; as alfo the 
fpots of the Sun, as obferved at the 
time of the tranfit, and two days be- 
fore. 
By means of two oblong fmoaked glades with dif- 
ferent lhades, made to Hide in a groove fixed to my 
telefcope, the phaenomenon appeared very diftinft 
and pleafing to the eye, notwithflanding the weather 
was a little hazy, and very much fo, near the horizon. 
The thermometer flood at 74 degrees at the time of 
obfervation, and the weather was remarkably clofe 
and fultry two days before, and quite calm till an 
hour before the tranfit happened, when it began to 
blow very frefli. June 4, the weather continued 
much the fame, and about 9’' in the evening, we 
had a fliock of an earthquake, which lafled about four 
feconds, and alarmed all the inhabitants of the ifland. 
The weather, at the time of the tranfit, was not 
clear enough to obferve the lead appearance of an at- 
mofphere round the planet, fuppofiog there really 
had been one. rr e, _ 7 
Saturday^ 
