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VIII. Double Stars difcovered in 1 779, at Frampton-houfe, 
Glamorganfhire. By Nathanael Pigott, Efq . F . R. S* 
Foreign Member of the Academies of Bruffels and.Caen, and 
Correfpondent of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris ; 
commmiicated by Nevil Malkelyne, D, D. F . R* S. and 
AJlrononomer Royal 
Read January 1 1 , 1781. 
y b tMe rev. nevie -maskelyne. 
rev. sir, October 27, 1779* 
I NCLOSED ate the determinations of the places of three 
double ftars, which I difcovered this fummer ; at leaft, I 
prefume, they have not been obferved -before, hecaufe I do not 
find them inferted in Dr. Bradley’s catalogue, published in 
the Nautical Almanac 1.77.3, or in the Connoiffance des Terns,, 
no more than in other catalogues in my pofieffion. y Delphini, 
indeed, is in M. de la caille’s catalogue ; but not as a dou- 
ble ftar. The inftrument he ufed was not, probably, power- 
ful enough for that purpofe. In the two-feet telefcope of my 
quadrant it appears only as a fiilgle ftar. Thefe ftars were ob- 
ferved by me in a three- feet achromatic telefcope of a tranfit 
in'ftrument» with an obje£t~glafs near two inches diameter. 
The R. A. are nicely determined by feveral obfervations, which 
always agree with each to a fra&ion of a fecond in time. The 
declinations 
