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There is newly published a large and very elaborate Treatise of Dr» Olaus Rud- 

 beckj Professor of Anatomy and History ^ at Upsal in Sweden ; comprised in 

 two Volumes ; the one containing the Discourse itself written both in the Latin 

 and Sivedish Tongues \ the other, the Maps and Descriptions referred to in the 

 Discourse, Philos. Collect. N° 4, p. 118. 



Olai Rudbeckii Atlantica, sive Manheim, &c. 



This deservedly famous author has here undertaken a great work, and much 

 to the honour of his country, to set forth the rise and progress of the kingdom 

 of Sweden, from Japhet the first king and possessor thereof in the times nearest 

 the flood, to Charles now at present reigning, of which the chronological tables 

 by him calculated give a short view. His helps herein have been, histories of 

 all sorts, ancient and modern, foreign and domestic ; the ancient poets, and 

 principally of Sweden, traditions which have so much greater authority, by the 

 language having been always the same, and the land never conquered by in- 

 vasion ; runic inscriptions, and monuments of greater age, and in greater quan- 

 tities than are to be found any where else. 



An Account of some considerable Observations made at Ballasore in India, serving 

 to find tJie Longitude of that Place, and rectifying very great Errors in some 

 famous Modern Geographers. Communicated by Mr. Edmund Halley, F.R,S. 

 Philos. Collect. N° 5, p. 124. 



Anno 1080, Oct. 28, old stile, the moon applied to the Bull's eye; which 

 star was observed to be eclipsed at Greenwich by Mr. Flamsteed, and at London 

 in Basinghall- street, by Mr. Haines, and myself; the Greenwich observation is 

 in the last of these tracts : at London we noted the immersion at 8h. 6m. 00s. 

 and that the star was newly emerged at gh. 2m. 52s. ; the just consent of our 

 two observations leave no room to suspect their nearness to truth. This ap- 

 pulse I procured to be observed in India by Mr. Benjamin Harry, master of the 

 ship Berkly Castle, and a very able artist, who upon his return gave me this 

 and some other very accurate observations. Riding at anchor in Ballasore road, 

 in the latitude of 21*^ 20' north, and about 20 miles E.S.E. from the town, he 

 observed that the star was not eclipsed, but the moon passed to the northward 

 about 24 or 25 minutes, and by his pendulum watch, rectified by altitudes and 

 the rising and setting of the sun, he noted that precisely at ]6h. 00m. the 

 Bull's Eye was in equal altitude with the moon's centre, that at l6h. 30m. the 

 star was in equal altitude with the lower limb of the moon, and at 17h. 12m. 

 the occidental limb of the moon was in a right line with the Bull's Eye and 



