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LX I. Ohfervatlon of the T^ranft of Wo.x\u^y 
on June 3, 1769. In a Letter from 
John Leeds, Rfquire^ Surveyor General 
of the Provmce of Maryland, to John 
Bevis, M. D. F, R. S. 
S I R, 
Talbot County, in Maryland, 
June 17, 1769. 
Read Dec. 21, 
1769. 
A S 'you will, I believe, have but few 
dtcounts from Maryland of the 
tranfit of Venus, I take the freedom to fend you 
this. 
Having no other inftruments to obferve with but 
a pocket watch and a reflecting telefcope about 
twenty inches long, of Sterrup’s make, on the third 
inftant, when the Sun was on the meridian, I fet 
my watch to 12, and at half an hour part: one began 
to obferve, keeping my eye to that part of the Sun’s 
limb a little north of the vertex, where I expeCled 
Venus to come on j 2^ io'| I perceived a fmall dent 
in the Sun’s limbj 2^ 25'! Venus was totally within, 
fo that the upper edge of the Sun and Venus feemed 
to touch. Being no better fitted for this bufinefs, I 
can give you no better account, I obferved (and 
indeed from the calculation I expeCled it), that the 
Planet 
