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James Cook reporting the observing conditions of the transit in Tahiti, from “Observations Made, by Appointment of the Royal Society, at King George’s Island in the South Sea; By Mr. Charles Green, Formerly Assistant at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, and Lieut. James Cook, of His Majesty’s Ship the Endeavour”, Philosophical Transactions, 61 (1771), 397-421, p. 411.