Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-07-30
THE GREAT ECLIPSE OF 1881.

LIE NNCA ECLIfSE Of 1851.
This eclipse which will happen on the 10Th
of February, will be one of tho most remarkable
taat will again be witnessed i'm the United States
for a long course of years: Tho apparent diam
eter ofthe sun will be SO q minutes of n degrec,
that ofthe moon3l t-2. OF course the eclipse will
DO annnidr; that Is in all places where the sun
viii DO centrally ~cclipsed, at the moment of the
tho greatest observation, il will exhibit the ap-
pearance of a beautiful luminous ring around the
moon.-Eclipses of this kind are of less frequent
occurrence than those which are total.-The
centre of the eclipse will first touch the car.h's
disk in the great Pacific Ocean on the morninv
of Feb. 18th, in lat. 81 deg. SIS minutes ~. aud
longitude 40 degrees 3 minutes west from
Greenwich. At this point the sun will rise CEN
trally e~clipsed at "a minutes past 6 O'Clock or
at three hours 81 m. P. nj. apparent time at
Greenwich. Thence proceeding by a gentle
curve to the South and East, in is minutes it
will enter upon tho coast of California, in lat.
"a degrees 30 minutes N. Thence curyiny
Northwardly, "a minutes more, it will enter the
United States near the S. W.. corner of Louisi.
ana, and in six minutes will cross the Mississippi,
near st. Francisville. Passing through the states
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u'cs more 1t will arrive at n point in Pendleton
county, South Carolina, in latitude 81 degrees
81 minutes N. longitude S2 deg. 80 minutes w.
where the sun will be centrally eclipsed on the
meridian. Thence passing over North Carolina
into Virginia, in Id minutes it will cross James
River, near Richmond, and continuing in nearly
a direct line in 3 min utes will leave the Jersey
shore at Little Egg harbor, passing a few miles
east OF Montauk Point; in 8 minutes it will leave
the eastern shore of Cape Cod at Wellfeet, and
in e minutes will enter upon the South Western
extremity of Novn Scotia. Thence passing over
the island OF Newfoundland and increasing in
velocity as it approaches the verge ofthe earth.
in 10 minutes more it will leave its disk in LAT.
81 deg, 40 min. w. long. at which point the sun
will set centrally eclipsed at 4 h. 80 m. or 6 h..
% III. Greenwich time.
The eclipse will have been 9 h. 81 m. in eros.
sing the eaithis disk, and about one hour from
its entrance to the time of its leaving the United
States. A line drawn through the above points
OH the Map OF n: America, will pass through all
those places where the eclipse is central. Two
other lines on each side of the first, at the dis.
lance of % miles, will include all places in the
United States where it will be Anuular. Its pen.
umbra will precede and follow the centre, at the
mean interval of one hour and thirty minutes.
marking on the central tract the beginning and
end of the eclipse.-Lines drawn on the map Of
the United States, parallel to the central track
at Intervals, on the S. side of 900, 1875 and IFS
miles, and on the north at intervals of 224. $50.
and 3OO miles, will exhibit, nearly, the respec.
tive points where the sun will be III, 10, digits
%eciipsed BY making proportions along the CEN
trail path OF the eclipse at intervals of Greenwich
time, and Prolracting the hour lines at right an
giles, the time and phrases of the eclipse may be
found for veiy nearly any place in the United
states, observing TO reduce the Greenwich time
to that of the place of observation.
This eclipse will be visible over. every part of
the North American continent and the West In.
dies, and will be seen as far sou tn as the CITY of
Quito in South America.