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The place at Kew, where you obferved, being 
T 9 V to the Weft of the obfervatory at Greenwich, 
•is of courfe 10' 25" Weft of that at Paris. 
The obfervations in the table, joined by a ftroke of 
the pen, were made together in the fame place. You 
will perceive, in comparing the obfei vations of the 
internal contadl, how little the five laft agree with 
the others. I am wholly ignorant in what light, 
the able aftronomers, who obferved at St. Hubert, 
confider their obfervations. 
Monheur le Monnier, in communicating them to 
me, adds no remarks, no more than in the letters 
he has wrote to me fince. I come therefore to thofe 
made at the honfe called La Mijjion , fituated in the 
neighbourhood of Allemagne , a village near this town. 
This houfe is about 500 toifes South-Eaft of my 
obfervatory at Caen, and their difference of meridians 
about 200 toifes. I preferred this fituation, from 
whence I could fee the fun almoft in the horizon, 
to that of my obfervatory ; the adjacent houfes of 
which, I forefaw, would deprive me of the fight of 
it, foon after the ingrefs of Venus. 
June the firft, I lent to the abovementioned houfe 
a fix feet achromatic refradlor, with its micrometer 
made byDollond, magnifying go times: an excellent 
telefcope of 18 inches focus magnifying from 55 to 
200 times made by Short, and a clock. 
June 2d, I took twenty altitudes of the fun, in 
the morning, to determine the going of a good com- 
pound pendulum, made by Le Paute, at Paris, which 
was to remain in the obfervatory at Caen, and to 
give the true times of the obfervations of the next 
day; and from correfponding ones in the afternoon, I 
L 1 2 concluded 
