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tetra ; for had the fun-beams (hot Rom beneath the

ewful)ing Win at a tolthderabk Insight above
)trlicte tbe dathoefs would have rendered
apmartrom of fuch a bow far brighter than it
in the prefence of the fun t but

clot
polo,trolo"rticles fouthminb'utrogas thole
warms, gan btn !ittle light and colour to the fight,
ind what would not ham been .viible, had the
fim been strive the boriton. Far the fame reafon,
the moon Ind Rws am ethnic in the abfence of the
Row Vol, on the contrary, am unfeen when the fun
is prcf.otn and if we light a candle, and tit it in
the tun-heaths, the Rome is loft to our light, tho' dm
lune candle wit give us a confiderable there of light
in the risk A. I have never before ken or heard
of loch an arch. Ithougbt this account of it (ini-
perfeet as it is) might not be difagreeabk to the
Royal Society.
it could lint be /war arch, the moon being then
may degrees below the horizon, and the arch in a
0.1ce, where it could not be affethed by the moon's
rays.The conkioufnek of my Mobility to give a
proper smooth of foch ant wtrommon appearance
could not deter me from the attempt.
I think I have laid all that is necelfary on this
Mitre yet am ready to onfwer ony quellion for
the triter ilultrating of it. I am,
Reverend Sir,
Your molt humbleRervAnt,

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