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There having been several Accounts of this Eclipse inserted in Two succeeding Transactions, it may not perhaps be unfit to mention what Mr. Jacobs an English Merchant now residing at Lisbon, inform'd Mr. J. Flamsteed in a Letter dated June 15. 1682. That He observed the beginning of it there at 8h 31′ p. m which gives the difference of Meridians betwixt the Observatory at Greenwich, and Lisbon, 411/2 Minutes of time, or 10° 22′ considerably different from our Mapps and Sea-Charts.


OXFORD,

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1683.