148 Description and Use of the

find the north point at noon will be mostelevated; which plainly {hews, that theinhabitants of the equator will fee the funfull north at that season, and that theirshade will be projected southwards.

238. If the globe be rectified to the win-ter solstice, art. 224. the south point willbe most elevated, and the inhabitants willfee the fun on their south side, which willproject their shadows northwards..

239. Heterofcii, are those who liye be-tween the tropics and polar circles, whosenoon-shadows are projectedone way only.

Those in north latitude have their noon-sliadows projected northwards; the fun atthat time being always in the south.

And those in south latitude have theirnoon-tide shadows projected southwards jthe meridian fun always appearing to themin the north.

240. Periscii are those who live withinthe polar circles, the fun going continuallyround them, their shadow must necessarilygo round them also.

If the sensible or terrestrial horizon beapplied to any of these places, and the globerectified according to the preceding direc-tions,