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the Moon’s diameter when near the meridian will make the 
eclipse total in the neighbourhood of this spot, and in the 
island of Madeira it will appear total. The central eclipse, 
continuing a north-easterly direction and passing the north- 
w’est coast of France, enters England near Bridport, and 
leaves it at the Wash on the coast of Norfolk — it crosses the 
German ocean, the Skager Rack, the Gulf of Bothnia, and 
the White Sea, and at last disappears at 15d. Ih. 23m. 8s. 
on the coast of Siberia, near Nova Zembla, lat. N. 69° 19', 
long. E. 64° 40'. The penumbra now rapidly decreases, and 
leaves the earth with the setting sun at 15d. 2h. 38m. 38s. in 
lat. N. 53° 46', long. E. 49° 44', near Simbirsk on the 
river Volga. 
This eclipse will be visible to the north part of South 
America, to the West Indies, the United States, Greenland, 
North Atlantic Ocean, the north part of Africa, to the whole 
of Europe, and to the north-west part of Asia : to the middle 
of England, the north of Denmark, and to Sweden, this 
eclipse will be of great magnitude. The line of the central 
eclipse enters England near Bridport, on the coast of Dorset- 
shire, passing near the following places, Sherborne, Devizes, 
Marlborough, Swindon, Oxford, Buckingham, Northampton, 
Peterborough, and Wisbeach, leaving this island at the Wash 
— at Oxford the eclipse will be very large, 997 parts out ot 
1000 of the Sun’s diameter being obscured — the eclipse will 
move over England at the rate of 4 1 miles per minute. 
At Manchester, lat. N. 53° 29', long. W. 2° 14', the 
eclipse will commence March 14d. 23h. 41m. 2s. — and w’ill 
end 15d. 2h. 15m. 33s the greatest phase will be at 
15d. Oh. 59m. 3s., when, supposing the Sun’s diameter to be 
divided into 1000 parts, 959 parts will be obscured on tli^; 
Sun’s southern limb. 
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