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tong.ef Mos- XXIII. The Duration of the Lunmr Eclifse Apr. 5. 1688. is made by

W Alipes; M ' Timmerman from 7*» 38' to about io*» 45', which agrees within 8 orL, 10 Minute 3 with our T abies, that never err sensible in the continuance of

>>2. p. 453. Eclipses ; and so much ought to be allowed to an Observer not fuffidentlyvij, sip. cap, instructed to distinguifh the Penumbra from the true Shadow, though aIV. §. LUI. sinall Tclejcope were used in this Observation. Let us conclude then, thatthe End was at io h at Moscua. We do not find that this Edisse wasobserved at London : However this defect is in good part supplied by an Ob-servation thereof made at Lipsickj by M. Gotfrid Kj.rck, and publifhcd in hisEfbcmcrides for the Year 16895 Where the End is-determined at 8h y4^f. m. Hence Moscua will be ih 46^ to the Eastvoard of Lifsick^, and theDisserence of Meridians between London and Lipficb^ bring already determin’dn.181. p. 96 . 49', it will follow that Moscua is X 1 » 35’' t0 the East of London , or 38°1»,» j» Mi«. i of Longitudo , which from other Accounts we sind to be very near thatof the City of Aleppo in Syria.

tat. of fivtral By the fame band we have procured the Latitudcs of the following Pla-smo mRutfia. ceS} observ’d, as ’tissaid, with a large Quadrant.

A. f. 4 ) 4 >

Moscua -———

-55°

34

57

44

iVolcgda- —

59

19

——61

15

-64

30

latitujei offom* Kemar^-Me Places; tjM/., FrancisV.ernon.a. 124. />. ,82.

XXIV. I have been as curious as I could in taking the Lati tudes offome Remarkable Places: as I find them I Oia.ll give them you.

Athens •<

- 380

05 /

—38°

40

Corintb

- 38

14 >

) Delphos —■■ ■ -

-38

50

Sparta -

-37

10 V

j Thebes - —- - -

38

XX

Ctrone -

-37

01 J

^Negropont or Chalcis—

-38

3 1

Ldtitujei of XXV. Upon Intimation of your Grace's desires, and upon importunityof some Lcarned Men, having finislied a Table, as a Key to your Grace’sJthodcs *, ii- exquisite difquisition, touching Aßaproperly so called\ Ithought my felf obligedYith '° £~ur to g ive both you and them a reason, why in the situation of ByzantiumGretves/ and the Island Rhodus, (which two Eminent Places I have made the». 178 ./. 1295 . 7Ta&.7dyv*td. and Bounds of the Chart ,) 1 distent from the traditions of theAncicnts, and from the Tables of our Lar* and best Geografhers ; and conse-quently dissenting in these, have been necellirated to alter the Latitudes, ifnot Longitudes , of most of the remarkable Gities of this Discourse. Andsirst for Byzantium, the received Latitude of it by Appianus, Mercator, Or-ttlius, Maginus, and fome others, is 43 0 5'. And this also we find in theBtasil Edition of Ptolemy s Geography, procured by Erasmus out ofa Greek MS.of Pettichius. The fame likewise is confirmed by another choice MS. inGreek of the most leamed and Judicious Mr, Seiden,. to whom for this favour