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 TAe Great Eclipse of 1831.-This e. clipse, which will happen on the 18th of Feb., will be one of the most rernarkable that will again be witnessed in the United States for long course ofyears. The ap- parent diameter of the sun will be 32 1-2 minutes of degree, that of the moon 31 1-2. Ofcourse the eclipse will be Gnmular; that is in all places where the sun will be centrally eclipsed, at the moment of the greatest obscuration, it will exhibit the ap- pearance of beautiful luminous ling a. round the moon. Eclipses of this kind are of less frequent occurrence than those which are total. The centre of the e. clipse will first touch the earth's disk in the great Pacific Ocean on the morning of Feb. 18th, in lat. s1 deg. 55 minutes N. and longitude 14O degrees 3 minutes west from Greenwich. At this point the sun will rise centrally eclipsed at 34 min- utes past 6 o'clock or at 3 hours 54 m. P. M. apparent time at Greenwich.- Thence proceeding by gentle curve to the South and East in 16 minutes it will enter upon the coasts of California, in lat. 27 degrees 30 minutes N. Thence curv- ing Northwardly, AZ minutes more, it will enter the United States near the 5. w. corner of Louisiana, and in six minutes will cross the Mississippi, near St. Francisville. Passing through the states of Mississippi. Alabama, and Georgia, in 27 minutes more it will arrive at q point in Pendleton ] county, South Carolina, in latitude 34 de- grees 37 minutes N. longitude S2 deg. 3S minutes w. where the sun will be central ly eclipsed on the meridian. Thence pas- sing over North Carolina into Virginia, in IA minutes it will cross James River, near Richmond, and continuing in nearly di- rect line, in minutes will leave the Jersey shore at Little Eggharbor, passing few miles east of Montauk Point in minutes it will leave the eastern shore of Cape Cod at WsllHeet, and in minutes will enter upon the South Western extremity of No- va Scotia. Thence passing over the isl- and of Newfoundland, and increasing in velocity, as it approaches the verge of the earth, in 19 minutes more 1t will leave it's disk in lat. 51 deg. 5S deg. 40 min. w. lon. at which point the sun will set cen trally eclipsed at 4 h. 30 m. or 6 h. g m. Greenwich time.

 The eclipse will have been 2 h. S1 m. in crossing the earth's disk, and about one hour from its entrance to the time of it's leaving the United States. A line drawn through the above points on the Map oi North America, will pass through all those places where the eclipse is central. Two other lines on each side of the first, at the distance of 50 miles, will include all place. in the United States where it will be annu. lar. Its penumbra will precede and fol. low the centre, at the mean interval of ons hour and thirty minutes, making on .hs central track the beginning and end of ths eclipse. Lines drawn On the map of the United States, parallel to the central track at intervals, on the $. sido of 200, 1S5 and 175 miles, on the north at intervals f22ol