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L. ExtraB of a Lette?\ dated Paris, Dec. 17, .1770, to Mr. Magalhaens, Jrom M. Bourriot; çontaining a fôort Account of the late Abbé Chappe's Obfervation of the "Tranfït of Venus, in Ca!ifornia. Tra?y'Jatcd by Dr. Bevis, F. R. £>. 'T^HE 7th of Decembcr inftant, the. 1 r H E 7th of December in{bnr, t1~l!' JL J-urrtals and Manufcripts of the late 1,. Abbé Chappe were depolircd at thcTRoyal Ohfer- vatory, with M. Cailini de Thury,by"'thc Sieur Pauli, one of the King's Èngineers, and Geoffrapher. who had accompanied the Abbé in lus. voyante» California. M. Pauli relates, ïhat M. Chappe chofe to flay at St. Jo'eph, .a iirttll viilage ren lègues frnm St. I.ucar, notwithd.vndin" tlvc' contagions difcaic;j jircvailing therc,-and rcl.ying.cn his o\vn good cun- liitution becaule Ire had ho more than eight dàys tu prépare for Jiis Ubicrvation.
Eight tlays after thé Tr :niir, h-, fî h--i,;d, y et coiv- tinued hii, cbicivatic-ns to the i.Ssh vl Jnlyi and, A Jitfk: beforc his death, Icft his nutcnaû> iïi \\rii;ng, put jiito a box, with M. IVuii, to be d.-livi-rcd fa the Royal Acadciny. Ile died about the 1 il vf Auguft, as did, about the f-itnc time, the Clock• 'y ̃ nwkcf