The New Hampshire Gazette

The transit of Venus was on Saturday observed by many curious Gentlemen, with suitable apparatuses, and by comparing notes, it appears, that it differed very little from Dr. Halley's computation; which shews the great perfection to which astronomical observations have arrived, and from thence what greater usefulness may be expected; since it appears from the observations, that at two places, viz. one at the east, the other at the west of London, at the time of the absolute emersion was at one of them thirty-five minutes three seconds after eight, and the other thirty five minutes even seconds after eight.