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Venus appeared totally entered 
h / // 
at 2 44 45 M. de Fleurieu. 
44 41 M. le Chev. de la Filiere. 
44 50 M. Saqui des Toures, 
44 44 Myfelf. 
During both thefe obfervations, every thing was 
quiet and ftill, not a word uttered, to intimate that 
any one had obferved the contaft. 
Stormy weather almoft every night hindered us 
from obferving the eclipfes of the fatellites. However, 
the 10th of June proving a clear night, afforded us 
an opportunity of determining the latitude of our 
obfervatory ; which by meridian altitudes of feveral 
ftars, both to the North and South, I determined to 
be 1 9 0 47' 03". The new church of the Cape, 
fituated nearly in the middle of the town, may be 
about 20" or 25" more Southward than our obferva- 
tory, whence its latitude 19 0 46' 40" North. 
As to the longitude, we had no other way but t© 
take with our quadrant fome altitudes of the moon’s 
lower limb : 
Mine were 
thefe : 
Alt. 
Times by clock. 
Apparent times. 
9 
h / tr 
h / // nr 
37 
9 12 53 
9 8 3° 54 
3 6 
*7 2 5 
13 2 43 
35 
21 55 
J 7 3 2 3 1 
34 
26 21 
2r 58 20 
33 
3 ° 4 8 >5 
26 25 58 
S s s 
2 
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