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THE TRANsIT OF MERcURY.-We learn from the Astronomers of the High School Observatory !, that the transit of Mercury he Sth. fulfilled their predictions il a most reala kahle manner. The ba- ginning and cnd took place about a minute and a almanac.

 An ingenious contrvance WAS restored to, by which the disc of the was thrown upon a screen, with the planet Mercury as Il round back spot il aiIer the fashion of d solar Microscope, that the nu- merous visitors al that institution enabled, all the same time, watch the progress of the planet from lts enitance to it's departure.

 This shows the progress ol this science towards perfection. Surh announcements in the las, century were liahle ip an error of quarter of an hour.

 As an illustration of the precision a,lainabe in this science with the perfect instruments now in use |, informed thai the diameter of Mercury, as measured bv the Fraunhoier Fiarmic ter, diff fered from that given i'owne's almanac only in the hundrcdIhs of a second -l Phil. U. S. Gazette.