321. “To illustrate this a little farther, we shall examine some of the most remarkable circumstances of the returns of the Eclipse which happened _July 14, 1748_, about noon: This Eclipse, after traversing the voids of space from the Creation, at last began to enter the _Terra Australis Incognita_, about 88 years after the Conquest, which was the last of King STEPHEN’s reign; every [66]_Chaldean_ period it has crept more northerly, but was still invisible in _Britain_ before the year 1622; when on the 30th of _April_ it began to touch the south parts of _England_ about 2 in the afternoon; its central appearance rising in the _American_ South Seas, and traversing _Peru_ and the _Amazon_’s country, through the _Atlantic_ ocean into _Africa_, and setting in the _Æthiopian_ continent, not far from the beginning of the Red Sea. “Its next visible period was after three _Chaldean_ revolutions in 1676, on the first of _June_, rising central in the _Atlantic_ ocean, passing us about 9 in the morning, with four [67]Digits eclipsed on the under limb; and setting in the gulf of _Cochinchina_ in the _East-Indies_. “It being now near the Solstice, this Eclipse was visible the very next return in 1694, in the evening; and in two periods more, which was in 1730, on the 4th of _July_, was seen above half eclipsed just after Sun-rise, and observed both at _Wirtemberg_ in _Germany_, and _Pekin_ in _China_, soon after which it went off. “Eighteen years more afforded us the Eclipse which fell on the 14th of _July 1748_. “The next visible return will happen on _July 25, 1766_, in the evening, about four Digits eclipsed; and after two periods more, on _August_ 16th, 1802, early in the morning, about five Digits, the center coming from the north frozen continent, by the capes of _Norway_, through _Tartary_, _China_, and _Japan_, to the _Ladrone_ islands, where it goes off. “Again, in 1820, _August 26_, betwixt one and two, there will be another great Eclipse at _London_, about 10 Digits; but happening so near the Equinox, the center will leave every part of _Britain_ to the West, and enter _Germany_ at _Embden_, passing by _Venice_, _Naples_, _Grand Cairo_, and set in the gulf of _Bassora_ near that city. “It will be no more visible till 1874, when five Digits will be obscured, the center being now about to leave the Earth on _September 28_. In 1892 the Sun will go down eclipsed at _London_, and again in 1928 the passage of the center will be in the _expansum_, though there will be two Digits eclipsed at _London_, _October_ the 31st of that year; and about the year 2090 the whole Penumbra will be wore off; whence no more returns of this Eclipse can happen till after a revolution of 10 thousand years.