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XXVII. An Account of an Appearance of Light , like a Star , 
seen lately in the dark Part of the Moon , by Thomas Stretton, 
in St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, London ; with Remarks 
upon this Observation , and Mr. Wilkins's. Drawn up, and 
communicated by the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, D. D. F. R. S. 
and Astronomer Royal. 
Read July 10, 1794. 
Mr. Vince, Fellow of this Society, having acquainted me by 
letter, early in April last, that a gentleman at Norwich had a 
month before seen a bright spot upon the dark part of the 
moon, and had made a little drawing of it in his pocket-book, 
which he promised to send to him, I immediately wrote a 
letter in answer to Mr. Vince, to desire him to request the 
gentleman to send the drawing he had promised, and a full 
account of the phsenomenon. Mr. Vince accordingly wrote 
to the gentleman immediately, Mr. William Wilkins, archi- 
tect at Norwich, which produced the first of the foregoing 
letters, and addressed by Mr. Wilkins to him, giving a par- 
ticular account of his observation, with a drawing of the ap- 
pearance. 
Soon after, my relation Sir George Booth, Bart, with his 
lady, being on a visit at the Royal Observatory, upon my men- 
tioning Mr. Wilkins's observation, Lady Booth said their 
servant, who is curious for a person in his situation, and fond 
of looking at the stars, had some time before seen something 
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