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When the Spot was near the middle of the Sun it appeared very broad and almost square, the Nucleus of the same Figure about 40" diameter, shaped as it is designed in the lower part of the Scheme, but when it was near the Limb much narrower and almost Oval, it seemed to have Confidence enough to endure a second return, if it shall it will enter the visible disk of the Sun on the 21 of May in the evening, and its passage over him describe a line nearly straight with greater latitude from the Ecliptick, as I have designed it in the Figure, wherein you will see its place every morning at 8 a Clock till its exit the 4th of June about Sun rise. Advertisement. The Anachronism committed in placing this paper in the Transaction of March was occasion'd by the necessity of its coming forth early, and there being no room for the Diagram belonging to it, in the Plate of the following Transaction, which was provided before the arrival of the discourse.