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had made on the going of the clock^ and are-a§ 
follows: - ■ v‘ 
. flj'K. h / 
By Dodtor 
Wilibn. 
- External contadl • 
Venui’s center judged to be on the limb 
Sun*s light appeared betwixt Venus and 1 
the limb J 
6 '54 31.4 
7 1 3,3.4 
7 11 56.7 
The beginning of the Solar ecliplh next'J 
mdrningi oblbrvcd by Short’s^nS inch r 18 30 14,2 
refledor ■ a 
Middle, from a ferles of obfervations with 1 , 
the objed glafs micrometer, fitted to a rig 18 47,7 
nine inch relledor of Short’s • ' . 
End not vilible 
* * I 
By Dr. Wil- f External contad * 6 ^^4 z2 
iiamfon and "j internal contad, or when the Sutras light "I ^ ' 
Dr. Reid* I appeared betwixt Venus and the’ limb \ J, 
Venus’s center judged to be on the limb, 'I ' . 
by Dr. Reid \ ‘ 
Dr. Reid marked the tirhe ^Vhen lie conceived the 
internal coritatfl ^duld have happened', if the -dark 
protuberance tipon Venus had been taken away, -'and 
Her dlfc reduced to a circle, viz. 7^ 10' 24'^ — - — ^He 
thinks it likewife proper to mention, that, feveral fe- 
conds before the time above fet down as the time of 
the internal contad", he faw a fmall dint upon the 
Sun’s limb^ which he took to be the external contad j 
that he immediately hientioned this to Dr. William- 
fon, who happened that inftant to have his eyes 
turned another way; but before he could look at it, 
it difappeared by the undulation in the Sun’s limb. 
Dr. Reid is the more perfuaded that this was not 
mere imagination, becaufe this dint on tl>e limb of 
the Sun appeared to him much nearer to the Sun’s 
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