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Equal Altitudes of the Sun and Stars. 
1769 
June 
3 
Time per Clock of the 
equal Altitudes of the © ’: 
limb, and of X- ’s. 
r 
II 
54 
19 
57 
58J 
. 4 
43 
8 
28 
12 
Hi 
16 
5 + 
22 
2 
Clouds 
Clouds 
Clouds 
Clouds 
1 33 47 
Clouds 
Clouds 
1 50 46 
55 00 
Clouds 
Clouds 
7 41 43 
' 7 37 40 
'v So hizy that 1 
1 could not fee 
t theQ’s limb at 
J time correfpon, 
7 161 25 : 
2 02 : 
Clouds 
1 
Clouds 
7 9 
> 42 
Clouds 
7 2 54l 
J 
3 * 00 
Clouds 
'l 
6 55 
6 4 25 
\ 3 6 
13 4 
Clouds 
J 
Then cloudy 
Zen. diftance 
of points on _ > i- 1 1 
the limb oft© s hmb, and 
Stars obferved. 
he quadt. the 
nonius was fet 
at. 
Time per Clock 
when the ©’s 
cent.and* pa(Tcd 
the merid. from 
the mean of the 
Obfervations. 
O ’s low. middle wire 
Ditto laft wire 
49 48 
'l 
> 47 28 
J 
> 44 47 
J. 
O *s upp. limb 
Low. Hmb la-ft 
wire 
O ’s upp. limb 
O ’s low. limb 
O ’s upp. limb 
O ’s low. limb 
O ’s upp. limb 
O ’s upp. limb 
4 35 37*8 
Though the air at external conta£b was not 
at feme times I have feen, yet the fun’s limb 
fined, and the fpots in the difk very ftrong, 
and diftinch At the internal contact, the air w 
and the limb of Venus feemed to cohere to the 
protuberance that appeared like a dark {hade : 
prevent my feeing the thread of light for about 
expe&ed. 
quite fo clear as 
appeared well de- 
their edges keen 
as much changed, 
Sun’s limb, by a 
which fet-med to 
40 " longer than I 
