They could not sleep in peace the preceding night: but their apprehensions were happily removed by the sun's rising, on the morning of the 3d of June, without a cloud.

The weather continued with equal clearness through the whole of the day; so that the observation was successively made in every quarter.

At the fort where Lieutenant Cook, Mr.Green, and Dr.Solander were stationed, the whole passage of the planet Venus over the sun's disk was observed with great advantage.

The magnifying power of Dr.Solander's telescope was superior to that of those which belonged to the lieutenant and to Mr.Green.They all saw an atmosphere or dusky cloud round the body of the planet; which much disturbed the times of the contact, and especially of the internal ones; and, in their accounts of these times, they differed from each other in a greater degree than might have been expected.

According to Mr.Green, _Morning._ The first external contact, or first appearance h.min.