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of the fun ; and whilft I was fteadily attending to 
thefe circumftances, I faw the pure and genuine light 
of the fun break in between fome of thofe fiffures 
like fireaks of lightening, which made the partial 
light become in two or three feconds of time, of 
the fame colour as the light of the fun, yet flill the 
undulating ligament though reduced was not broken. 
And now, 
In an inftant, the northern part of the divided liga- 
ment withdraws itfelf from the fun’s limb about 
half way towards Venus, and inftantly but gently 
it returns and again unites the limbs of the fun and 
Venus j inftantly after, another lefs northern part of 
the ligament does the like, and then breaks off 
again, and fo doth each part of the divided ligament, 
till y h 29' 51" apparent time, when the ends or 
vertexes of the black cones between Venus and the 
fun’s limb appear to be feparated from the fun’s 
limb, retreating to that of Venus, and diffolving or 
dying away like a drop of tinge thrown into water, 
and now the thread of light becomes compleat. 
The internal contact being paft, and Venus being 
wholly on the fun, I examined the fpace furrounding 
Venus, and faw fucli a lucid annulus around the 
planet as appeared in 1761. The part of this an- 
nulus next to the limb of Venus appeared a little 
dufky, but much more clear than in 1761 (when 
it appeared more confufed, and as a penumbra) ; but 
that part of the annulus fartheft off from the cir- 
cumference of Venus appeared to me a little tinged 
with blue. The breadth of the annulus about five 
or fix feconds. 
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