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obferved by two perfons with the two nchromatic te> 
lefcopes, with treble objedt glafles, and they agreed 
to a jccond. 
Dr. Lind writes, another time, that, being from 
liomc, at Lees, near Colddream, 7 miles wefl: of 
i^crwick, he obferved the latitude of the place about 
. 5 / • 
The foregoing particulars are extraded from let- 
ters received Irom Dr. Lind. He has alfo commu- 
nicated to me the following oblervations of the tran- 
lit of Venus and Solar eclipfe, made by the Reverend 
Mr. Brice, at Kirknewton, as follows : 
I here likevvife fend fome obfervations, made in 
our neighbourhood, by the Reverend Mr. Bryce, 
Minifter at Kirknewton. He is a very good aftro- 
nomer, and is a writer in the Philofophical Tranfac- 
tions. Kirknewton is in lat. 55° 54^ 30^^^ N. and 
about 17 miles W. of Hawkhill, from meafuring it 
on Lawrie’s map of the environs of Edinburgh. 
The clock had been tried by feveral tranfits of a 
fixed ftar, and always found to meafurc time fo ex- 
actly, that in the fpace of five days it did not differ 
one fecond from the truth j it was alfo examined by 
taking equal altitudes of the S\in, and found to be 
I S" flow. The day was cloudy, with flying fliowers, 
till about two o’clock in the afternoon; then it grew 
fome what clear, and about four the Sun flione out 
exceeding bright, when I obferved carefully the fpots 
upon the Sun ; the brightnefs continued till about 
15' before 7'’, when a cloud came over the Sun, 
which was not feen till 6*^ 55' 40'' mean time, as 
Ihewn by the clock, and then Venus had made a 
fenfible 
