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Received March 15, ifjo. 
XXIII * On the late "Tr unfit of Venus: By 
Nathan Pigott, Rfq\ to Dr. Bevis, F. R. S . 
Caen, Lower Normandy, Feb. 9th, 1770. 
Dear Sir, 
Read April 26, T TAKE the opportunity of Captv 
Hue’s failing from this place, to fend 
you the obfervations of the Jaft tranfit of Venus over 
the Sun, made here, and which I would have re- 
mitted fooner, if an opportunity had offered. I fhould 
be obliged to you, if you would communicate thefe 
obfervations to the Royal Society. I have added 
thofe of other obfervers, which have been fent to me, 
from different places, and reduced the fame to the 
obfervatory of Paris, keeping an account only of the 
difference of meridians, as inferted in the Connoijfance 
des terns , and omitting the (mail correction of the 
parallax, fuitable to the different fituation of thefe 
places, becaufe, I prefume, the longitude of fome of 
them, is not known with fufficient precifion, to ad- 
mit here of this very fmall equation. 
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