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XI. Aftronomical Ohfervations made at 
Chiflehurft in Kent, by the Reverend 
Francis Wollafton, F. R. S. 
Received November 12, 1772° 
Read Dec. 17, the laft year did myfelf the honour 
1 to deliver to this Society, an ac- 
count of the going of an aftronomical clock with a 
wooden pei^dulum, for the year preceding ; together 
with fuch ohfervations as I had made in this place; 
the latitude of which is 51 0 24' 3 3" 'North, and its 
longitude 4' 39" = i8 /y ,6 in time, Eaft of the 
Royal Obfervatory at Greenwich. As that account 
feemed not wholly unacceptable, I have now con- 
tinued it down to the prefent time : omitting how- 
ever the feries of tranfits ; which I gave in the for- 
mer paper, merely to ftaew the exadtnefs with which' 
they might be taken with a very fmall inftrument, 
beyond what I had expected to find. 
The rate of the clock deduced from the obfer-- 
rations of this laft year, will not be found fo uni- 
form as the foregoing.. To what caufe to afcribe it, 
3 am not certain. I think not to heat: perhaps to 
the great drought of the hummer. However, its ac- 
celeration or retardation was not defultory, but fuf— 
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