33^ Mr. Smeaton’s Obfervation of Mercury 
Again, o Tauri upon Sept. 23. patted the horary wires at - 
and • 26. — — — — - 
e Tauri therefore came fooner after three days by — — 
ought to accelerare on mean time - — 
/ u 
9 3 6 27-3 
9 2 4 39-3 
11 47-5 
11 47.7 
therefore came too late in rhree days by 
.2 
la declination. 
/ // 
0 Tauri upon Sept. 23. patted north of telefcope’s center » 30 26 
26. — * ‘ — - 30 18 
— — . — therefore patted lefs north, or more fouth, than before by 8 
In like manner every companion that Tab. III. affords is par- 
ticularly fef down in Tab. IV. which containing thirteen com- 
panions in right afcenlion and ten in declination, the greateft 
deviation -in right afcenlion is i // . 2 , and ii /; of a degree in 
declination. This fuppofes every error before mentioned to 
xefide in the inftrument, and every other inftrument and obfer- 
vation, which were concerned in the refult, to be perfedf ; 
which, from the fmallnefs of the total errors, feems to indi- 
cate a degree of fteadinefs ill the inftrument unexperienced or 
unnoticed before. 
Deduction of the f option of Mercury from the ‘preceding 
obfervatio?is as ft down in Tab. Ill, 
In right afcenfion from col. 6. 
in 
6 Tauri followed X Ceti Sept. 2 %. - - - 24 59 
— — — 26. - - 24 59.2 
30. - - 2459.1 
* oa. 13. - - 24 58.7 
-■ at a mean 'of the four - - 24 59 
» Orionis 
