In a paper which I had the honour of reading before this Society On the eighth of July last, I endeavoured to establish—First, that the remarkable astronomical phenomenon which occurred in the fourteenth year of Hezekiah, King of Jndah—viz., the retrograde motion of the sun's shadow on the dial, or steps, of the king's palace at Jerusalem, accompanied by some visible wonder in the heavens—must have been the effect of an eclipse of the sun. Secondly, that if the phenomenon was indeed caused by a solar eclipse, it must have been one combining the following distinguishing characters, viz.:—
1st, That it should have been visible at Jerusalem.
2nd, That it should have occurred within about twenty days of the winter solstice.
3rd, That it should have occurred about noon-day.
4th, That the occultation should have been on the upper limb of the sun.