[ 3^5 ] 
Sid. time. Mean time. 
h f tr 
45 34 
19 18 29 
19 28 27 
19 30 27 
19 38 27 
Towards the end it was very clear, and I make no 
doubt but we fliould have feen the fmoaky ap- 
pearance, had it not been for the day-light coming 
on. 
Since I wrote to you laft,- we have taken another 
meridian obfervation for the latitude, and made it 
55° 5/ 3<?" N- 
In looking into the Abridgment of the Philofo- 
phical Tranfadlions, Vol. VII. p. 140, I found an 
account of an annular eclipfe of the Sun, obferved at 
Edinburgh, by Mr. Mac Laurin, in the year 1737 j 
which may help to determine our longitude for the 
prefent, till it is done more correftly by occultations 
of the ftars by the Moon, or eclipfes of Jupiter’s fa- 
tellites. I am, with refpedt, 
S I R,. 
Your mofl devoted, humble fervant, 
James Lind. 
// 
* 12 14 24 = 
1 ft clearfpot re-appeared, ' 
but indiftindfly, being 
a little cloudy 
Mare Criftum totally J 
emerged j ^ 
Moon’s limb compleated 12 57 24 
2d contadl of darknefs 12 59 24 
End of fmoaky appear - 1 
ance 
13 5 25 — 
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