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Winter, Spring and Autumn, would be loft, 

 and for want of Acceffion of the Sun, thefe Parts 

 of the Earth, which nov/ bring forth Fruits, 

 and are Habitable, would be in an Incapacity of 

 ever bringing forth any ; fith then, the Heat 

 could never be greater than now it is at our loth 

 of March, or the nth oi September, and there- 

 fore not fufficient to bring their Fruits and Grain 

 to Maturity, and confequently could entertain 

 no Inhabitants^ and thofe Parts that the full 

 Heat of the Sun could reach, he plying them 

 always alike without any annual Receffion, or 

 Intermiffion, would at laft grow tired, or ex- 

 haufled, or be wholly dried up, and want Moi- 

 fture, the Sun diffipating and cafting off the 

 Clouds Northwards and Southwards. Befides, 

 we obfervethat an orderly Viciffitude of Things, 

 doth much more gratifie the Contemplative Pro- 

 perty in Man. 



And now in the fecond Place, neither would 

 Reafon make choice of a co-incident Pofition^ 

 For if the Axis thus lay in a Plane that goeth 

 through the Center of the Sun, the Ecliptick 

 would, like a Colure, or one of the Meridians^ 

 pafs through the Foles of the Earth, which 

 would put the Inhabitants of the World into a 

 pitiful Condition. For they that efcape beft in 

 the Temperate Zone, would be accloyed with 

 long Nights very tedious, no lefs than forty 

 Days, and thofe that now never have their 

 Night above twenty-four Hours, as Friejland^ 

 ' Iceland-^ 



