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Tue fecond happened on the 13th year of the reign of 
‘Claudius, as the Abyflinian account ftates it. Claudius fuc- 
ceeded to the crown in the 1540, and the 13th year of his 
reign will fall to be on the 1553. Now we find this eclipfe 
did happen in the fame clear feafon of the year, that is, on 
the 24th of January 1553, fo'in this fecond inftance our 
chronology is perfectly correct. 
‘Tue third eclipfe of the fun happened in the 7th year of 
the reign of Yafous IL. in Magabit, the feventh month of the 
Abyflinians. Now Yafous came to the crown in 1729, fo 
that the 7th year of his reign will be in 1736, and on the 
4th day of October, anfwering to the 8th day of the month 
Tekemt, N. S. in that year, we fee this eclipfe obferved in 
Europe. 
As a further confirmation of this, we have ftated the par~ 
‘ticulars of a comet which, the Abyffinian annals fay, ap- 
peared at Gondar in the month-of November, in the 9th 
year of the reign of Yafous I. and as this comet was ob- 
ferved in Europe to have come to its perihelion in Decem- 
ber 1689, and as that year, according to our account, was 
really the gth of that king’s reign, no further proof of the 
exactnefs of our chronology can ‘poflibly be required. By 
means of thefe ebfervations, counting backward to the time 
of Icon Amlac, and again forward to the death of Joas, 
which happened in 1768, and affigning to each prince the 
number of years that his own hiflorians fay he reigned, T 
have, in the moft unexceptionable manner that I can devife, 
fettled the chronology of this country; and the exact’agree- 
ment it hath with all the remarkable events, regularly and 
fatkciently vouched, plainly fhews the accuracy of this me- 
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