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yAt Paris ;M. Caliim..Hi. p. 4018..Si. p. 4042.

Mar. 8. in the Morning 4h the Long. was iz°. T- and theLat. 53«.Y\ hich ycc i would not have f aken precilcly, because 1 carinor yet reducemy Oblervations to a Calculus.

Mr 1. Mr. Hanc Kcrvton about the 16 of Aiarchs. V fiw a dull Star South-West' Perseus, which he now takes to have been that Comet. It wasvery finali,and had not uny Yitiblc- Tali, which made him regard ic no further.

3. The "Mati. cmaticians ot l.a Flcsclc perceivtd him from the 16 of March ,'st. r. and gave us here at Parii the lirst noticeof it. Thole of the Co liege ofClcrmout l eing advertiled d it, law hirti the 25 of the firme Month.

klar. 2 6. 7 h 30' in the Evening, M. C affini law him between the Hcadof Medusa and th c Pleiades ; without a Telelcope he appeared no otherwilethau a Star of the 3^ Maguitude ; His Hcad, leen witli a Telelcope of 17foot, appear d alniuit Rouud ; but it was well defioed, and distinguisht fromthe mistinels, v. hich torrned a kind ot Chcveluie, whcrewith it was encom-pafled ; and even the middlc was a little confuled, and leemed to have Ine-cjualitics, as are iecn in Clouds. —

The 7 ayl was almost imperceptible; yet by the Telelcope it was leenturned Opposite to the Sun, and it appeared of the Length of two Diametersof the licad or th.treabout : For it was not easie to mealure it precilely, bc-caule being Tiiinncr r.ccording as it was farther trom the licad, its Extremitywas inlenlibly oif. And lo the whole Cernet, Hcad, Tail, and Cbevclurc, takenaltogether, touk up no more then 3 or 4 Minutes of a Degree. At jh-48s he was in a straight Line witli the Lucida in the Hcad of Medusa , andwith the most Occidental one of the Pleiades 3 and above the two ClearestStars of the Seuthem Fcct cf Perseus ', lo that a straight Line drawn throughthele two Stars, did almost touch the Southern extremity of his Chcvelttre.This Place of the Comet, transferred upon the Map of the Fixt Stars, feliprecifely cnough upon 23* 25'. cf Tauris, in 14° Northern Lati-. ude.

Withn Telelcope cf 3 foot, we law near tl.e Ccmet two small Stars, distantone diameter of the Sun from one another, w liich Stars are not in the Cata-logues. The Canet was in the Straight Line, drawn trom one of thole twoStars to the other precifely at e) Jl x 5 . but a little nigher to that whicli wasWtstward : But 9 h 33h he was equally Distant from them both. It wastaken notice cf that from 8 h s- till 10^ 2 6' /-/emade, in relpect cf thele twoStars, an oblique Motion sensible enough, going srom North to South inthe same time that he advanced srom West to Fast.

Aiar. 28. 7 h 42s in the Evening the Ccmet was distant srom the lestbright Star of the Seuthem Foot of Perseus, no more than about 24/ West-ward. He had almost the lame Latitude with thisStar; lö that he was pre-cilely enough at 260 8'. L, and in the Lat. 120. 8 ; . At 8 h. 14we took, aswell as we could, the Distance of the Canet to the Star in the Eye of 'lau-rus, called A’tdelaran, H) 0 z8s And 8 h 29'. the distance of the Comet tothe Star, called Capella, was found tobe of zi 0 32'.

Mar.