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Author in the said Mag. for July 1766 page 316 goes on and asserts the difference of the results in the foregoing letter arise from the method of computation & that there is not one true method yet made public.  
    Again in the last mentioned Mag. p. 322.   Philalethes Oxoniencis, after assigning the cause of the mistake in the observations of M. [[underline]] Pingre [[/underline]], says, 66  M.[[underline]] Pingre [[/underline]],  in his Memoir printed in the Royal Academy's Vol. for the year 1761, tells us, that the principal objection of his mission to the island of [[underline]] Rodrigues, [[/underline]] was the determination of the Sun's parallax; and therefore he used his utmost care & attention in measuring the [[underline]] apparent least distance of the centers of the sun and Venus [[/underline]], and never neglected any opportunity of doing the same, as often as the wind & rain would permit.  This apparent least distance of the centers, as measured by M. [[underline]] Pingre [[/underline]], is set down = 561, 69 sec. being the mean of a great number of measurements, and consequently very near the truth. -  M. [[underline]] Mallet [[/underline]], the Royal Observer at [[underline]] Upsal [[/underline]] in [[underline]] Sweden [[/underline]], in a letter lately read at the R. Society, says, that he measure the apparent least distance of the centers at [[underline]] Upsal [[/underline]] repeatedly, and found it, on a mean, 590,6s. These two determinations of the apparent least distance of the centers, at these two places, must be allowed to be true, or at least very near the truth, when we consider the abilities of the two observers.  The difference between these two numbers, = 28.91s. is a base from which we can deduce the parallax of the sun; which accordingly we find =8.73s. agreeing very nearly with what was determined by the internal and external contacts in the paper of [[underline]] Phil.Lond. [[/underline]] & is a further proof that there must have been an error of one minute of time in setting down the time of the internal contact at [[underline]] Rodrigues. [[/underline]]  This last determination of the Sun's parallax, by the apparent least distance of the centers, does not depend on the difference of longitude of the two places being accurately known, whereas that by the contacts does; and the very near agreement of these two determinations strongly confirm each other.  This determination by actual measurement at [[underline]] Upsal [[/underline]], of the apparent least distance of the centers, is also a proof that there is a mistake in M. [[underline]] Pingre's [[/underline]] method of determining the apparent least distances of the [[strikethrough]] cent [[/strikethrough]] centers by the total duration observed at any place; for by that method M. [[underline]] Pingre [[/underline]] makes the apparent least distance of the centers at [[underline]] Upsal [[/underline]] = 595,62s.; and is a confirmation of the truth of the method given by Mr. [[underline]] Short  [[/underline]], in his second paper on the sun's parallax, printed in the [[underline]] Phil. Trans. [[/underline]] for 1763: For by his method, and making use of his elements, we find, that, on the supposition of the sun's parallax being = 10S. 8,5s. and 7s. the apparent least distances of the centers at [[underline]] Upsal [[/underline]] must be (from the total duration observed, = 5h 20m 26s) = 589"822; 589"892, and 589"938: And if we compare these three apparent least distances, computed for [[underline]] Upsal [[/underline]], with the apparent least distance measured at [[underline]] Rodrigues [[/underline]], the Sun's parallax on these three suppositions is 8,50s. 8,52s. and 8,53s.  This determination of the Sun's parallax, by the least distance of the centers deduced from the total duration observed, is more certain than that found by actual measurement, in these northern latitudes, as has been observed in Mr. [[underline]] Short's [[/underline]] 2 [[superscript]] d [[/superscript]]. paper.  If we extend this method of his to a place in Southern
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Corrected transcription of handwritten capital P - was originally transcribed as capital T.