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In the internal contact, James Hoy differed from 
the other gentleman and me two minutes, he calling 
it 1 2 minutes, and we 14 minutes; which of us is wrong, 
will be no difficult matter to determine. In the in- 
ternal contact we all obferved the black ligament or 
protuberance, which was not broke for fome feconds 
after the regular circumference of Venus feemed to 
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be w'ithin the Sun; and the obfervation we fend you 
was, as near as we could judge, about the time this 
protuberance was going to break. Lord Alemoor 
alfo, and he only, obferved regular circumferences 
of the Sun and Venus in contadt, at 7*" 14' 10", 
mean time. 
The morning promifed ill, yet we got 9 very good 
altitudes of the Sun near the prime vertical. About 
noon the day was terrible, with thick clouds, and like 
fettled rain. You may imagine how we felt. About 
two o’clock the wind began to change from the 
fouth to the weflward ; about three o’clock it was 
weft, and the clouds breaking ; fo that we got 5 very 
good correfponding altitudes. There was, about 4 
o’clock, a very hard thunder ftiower, and calm, after 
which the wind began to blow brilLly from the 
north-weft ; the clouds blown away, and thofe near 
the horizon deprefted and held down, the Sun flione 
clearer than I ever faw it, and not a cloud was to be 
feen in that quarter. It remained fo till after both 
conta(fts; when, not half a minute after, fmall flying 
clouds paffcd over the Sun, and ffiewed us how much 
we were obliged to kind heaven for the very favour- 
able opportunity we had of making our oblervations. 
It appeared, I alfure you, as if Providence had with- 
drawn the clouds over head, and held down thofe near 
the 
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