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I have saved all the observations I have made, and the work of them, which I should have sent you a complete copy of, if I had been well enough to have transcribed them.

I am,
Yours, &c.
John Horsley.

Mr, Horsley, whose skill and diligence are better evinced by his own account than by any encomiums I can give them, made use of a quadrant made by Mr. Bird, and my British Mariner's Guide, for determining the longitude of the ship at sea.


LV. An Account of a remarkable Meteor seen at Oxford, April 23, 1764. In a Letter to the Rev. Thomas Birch, D. D. Secretary to the Royal Society, from the Rev. John Swinton, B. D. F. R. S. Member of the Academi degli Apatisti at Florence, and of the Etruscan Academy of Cortona in Tuscany.

Good Sir;

Read Dec. 13,
1764.

HAVING taken a turn on the Parks, or Public University-walk here, on Monday April 23, 1764, towards the decline of the afternoon; I made a visit to a friend in town, with

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