no Don ullo a’s Obfervations 
For four or five feconds before the appearance of 
the fliining ring, and during as many after it had dif- 
appeared, one could fee the liars of the full and fe- 
cund magnitude as at the entrance of the night; but 
when it was in its greateft degree of brilliancy, only 
thofe of the firft magnitude could be difcovered. The 
darknefs was fuch, that perfons who were afleep, and 
happened to wake, thought that they had llept the whole 
evening, and only waked when the night was pretty far 
advanced. The fowls, birds, and other animals on board 
took their ufual polition for fleeping as if it had been 
night. 
Before the edge of the Sun’s diflc emerged from 
that of the Moon, there was difcovered near that of the 
latter a very fmall point of that of the Sun ; it was im- 
perceptible to the naked eye, but having looked at it 
with 
Quatre ou cinq fecondes avant de voir paroitre Panneau brill ant, et autant 
apres fa fupreffion Pon vit, comnie a Pentree de la nuit, les etoiles de la i ere et 
de la 2 de grandeur ; mais lors qu’il etoit dans fon brillant on ne voyoit que celles 
de la i ere . L’obfcurite fut au point que des perfonnes qui dormoient et qui 
f^evei lie rent crurent a leur grand etonnement d’avoir dormi toute la foiree et de ne 
f’etre eveillees qu’ affez avant dans la nuit. Les poules, les oifeaux et les autres 
animaux prirent leur polition ordinaire pour dormir commc li c’eut ete la nuit. 
Avant que le bord du difque du Soleil parut par celui de la Lune, on decou- 
vrit pres de celleci un tres petit point de celui du Soleil imperceptible a la vue ; 
mais l’ayant diftingue par le fecours de la lunette^ je Peftimai d’abord de la 
grandeur 
