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ous and so convenient a manner, as to
give me the utmost pleasure.
He was so polite as to address himself
to me always in French, as I had at first
accosted him in that language, and in
which I was at this time much more at
my ease than in Italian. M. Messier had
told him the comet had very little mo-
tion, being almost stationary; but Pa-
dre Boscovich afterwards found it so ra-
pid as to move fifty degrees in a day.
Mais la comete, Monsieur, lui dis-je, ou [sic]
est elle à present ?--Avec le soleil, elle est
mariée.
The late Duke of York made him a
present of one of Short's twelve-inch re-
flectors, of twenty-guineas price; but
he has an acromatic one, by the same
maker, which cost one hundred. The
expence of his observatory, which is
defrayed by himself, must have been
enormous. He is university profes-
sor at Pavia, where he spends his
winters.
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