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Winthrop Family Papers

Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2

Lordes daye 30.

30 May 1630

June 1: Tuesdaye.

1 June 1630
mundaye 31.
Winthrop, John

1630-05-31

winde n: w: a smale gale, Close and Colde weather, we sounded but had no grounde: about noone the winde came N: b: E: a stiffe Constant gale, and faire weather so as our shippes waye was 7: 8: and sometymes 12 leagues a watche. this daye about 5: at night we expected the Eclippis1 but there was not any, the sunne being faire and Cleere from 3: till it sett.

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Professor Robert W. Wilson computed that this solar eclipse would have been at its maximum about 2:30 P.M. viewed from the position of the Arbella at the time; but that at the maximum phase the diminution of the sun's disk would not have been noticeable unless one were looking for the eclipse at that time. By 3 P.M. the eclipse was practically over. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, XII. 196.