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TRANSACTIONS. 
I. An Account of a new Comet. In a Letter from Mifs Caroline 
Herfchel to Charles Blagden, M. D . Sec. R . S. 
Read Nov. 9, 1786. 
S I R, 
I N confequence of the friendship which I know to exiSl 
between you and my Brother, I venture to trouble you in 
hisabfence with the following imperfect account of a comet. 
The employment of writing down the obfervations, when 
my Brother ules the 20-feet refle&or, does not often allow me 
time to look at the heavens ; but as he Is now on a viiit to 
Vol. LXXV 1 I. B Germany f 
