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ThfhMoH of CII. i. As. Au^r.t, afccr 5 or 4 pbservatiöns, hath publifffd another'E»fc. Comet, K.phowmda coneeming the Motion of the Cnnet which he first began to Ob-h^Ai' l ‘\a*oi'^ rve 7 ~ I 66s He afftrms that the Line deferibed by this Star re!eM>m 3. p” 3<’ U 'hies hitherto a Great Circie, as it is found in all other Comcts in the midit oftheir Courfe. Hc tincis the lkid Circle Inclincd ro die Eclipticis about z6°.geh and the Nodes where it cuts it, towards the üegining of Gemini and S<r>-gittan ; that it Declines from the -‘Epoter about z 6 °. and cutts it towardsthe ii 3 , and confcquently that its greatest Latitudc hath been towards Pisces ,and its grearctl Declinaticn towards the Zy°. of the .E.juator. Hoputs it inits Pcrigcc about 15"'. of Pisces a little more Westcriy then Merebat', or theHing of Pegasus.

OoferveJ ; /jy At. z. He oblervcs in General, that this Seccnd Comet is contrary to the pre-Auzout. 16. p. cedent, alniost: in alt Partien lars : seeing that the former moved very (vvifr,this pretty üow; that against the Order of rhe Signs from Eastto V-’elV, this,following them, from West ro East ■ that, from South to Not th, this, fromNorth to South, as far as it hath been hitherto, that we hear ol, Oblcrv-d ,that, on the fide oppolite to the Sun, this, on the lame side; that, havingbeen in its Perigcc at the time of its Opposition, this having been there, olitos the lime of its Conjunctior.. He falce di also notice, that this Cometdiffers in Brighrnels from the other, as well in its Bodj, which is far moreVivid and DilVmct, as in its Train, wbole Splendor is much greater, iince itmay beleen even with great Telelcopes, which were ulelefs in the formerby rcason of its Dimnefs.

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comet. An. CHI. i. An. 1 668. Mar. lod. ih. of the following Night, ( aster the16S8. Italia» way of counting ) I obferved a Path of Light extended from the PVbale

Cassini. i>- Z;. lhrotigh Eridanus ; which I judged to be the Train of a Comet both by thep. sSz- Figure and Colour, as alio because that the Direction of it was to the partopposite to the Sun, like other Comets. By its extreani Point it reached totliat Star in Eridanus, which is call’d the 14. by Bayerus .- But it issued outof the Horizontal Clouds, lo that I thought the Hcad of the Comet was ei-ther vailed by them, or hid under the Horigon. Mar. i 1. there was seen aBrightnels in the Ifi.alc, amongst rhe thin Clouds, at Icast for half an Hour,which was very like the Splendor of Venus, likewise vaifd with thinClouds.

Mar. I z. when the Great Dog was in the Midbctven, the lame Tai i ap-pear’d again. It paffed through the Star in Eridanus, which Bayerns casisthe 1 y. and lest to the Southward the 1 4. where it did terminate Mar. 1 o.Beingby the Imagination drawn out to about 3 0 . and further, it rended tothat Southern Star which prcceeds the Ear of Lepus. It was therefore moreNortherly than the Day before Yesterday, and more Easterly. We weredoubtful whether its head was hid by the Clouds or under the Horizon.But the Line from Jupiter to the Extremity of the seid Tail in the Cloudswas Perpendicular to that Tail ; lo that it was in the iVhalc, and the Appa-rent part of the Trahi reached out in Length about 310.

1. Mar.