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The fame day, by feveral meridian altitudes ot 
ftars taken fome to the North, Tome to the South, I 
found the latitude 14 0 35' 494 // . M. de Fleurieu 
made it 14° 35' 544-". 
The j 5th the rains began. 
At Cape Francis in the ifland of St. Domingo. 
June 3 we firft perceived Venus entering on the 
Sun’s difk. 
h / // 
at 2 26 144 apparent time, with Dollond’s 24. feet' 
telefcope. M. de Fleurieu. 
2 26 1 64. apparent time, with an achromatic of 
3 feet, by l’Eftang. M. la Filiere.. 
2 26 204 apparent time, with a common tele- 
fcope of 2 feet, only 2 lenfes. M. 
desSaqui Toures. 
2 26 1 24 apparent time, with a five-feet achro- 
matic. Myfelf. 
After having given our eyes fome refpite, we re- 
turned to the telefcopes ; and M. de Fleurieu per- 
ceived a luminous little circle all round Venus, not 
yet entered more than about one third of her diameter.. 
This luminous thread made, to all appearance, a per- 
fect circle with the part of the circumference of Venus 
already advanced on the folar difk. I likewife ob- 
ferved the fame phenomenon, but a good while after 
M. de Fleurieu. 
I 
Venus 
