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t^d out of the Terfian tables, place it more 

 Northerly in 45. But by latter and better 

 obfervation it is found, that they have erred 

 in affigning the Latitude of this City, as of 

 feveral other places. To falve thefe differen- 

 ces, there is no juft ground of pretence tofay^ 

 that the Poles are moveable and have changed 

 their fituation fince their time, whereas it 

 may better be imputed to their want of due 

 care, or to their taking things upon truft, 

 from the reports of Travellers and Seamen^ not 

 having been upon the places themfelves: 

 which certainly is to be laid for Ptolomy whole 

 obfervations, as to places more remote from 

 Alexandria^ are far from being accurate and 

 true. The learned Mr. John Greaves^ as I 

 find in a Manufcript difcourfe, very worthy 

 of being Printed, which he prefented to the 

 moft reverend and renowned Arch-bijhof Vjh- 

 er^ took the height of the Pole at Confiantino^ 

 pie with a brafs fextant of above 4 feet radius^ 

 and found it to be but 41 degrees 6\ but by 

 the obfervation we made in our Court-yard 

 dit Pera with a very good Quadrant we found 

 it but 40 degrees and 58 minutes of North 

 Latitude. 



There is no place between the Profontis and 

 the walls of the City, except juft at the Serag- 

 lio-point, which may be two hundred paces 

 in length; where they have raifed on a plat- 

 form a battery for Great guns^ but from the 

 point to the end of the Haven Weft, the fpace 

 to the gates is unequal in fome places about 

 twenty paces broad, in others three or four 

 times as many more. 



The diftance between Confiantinople and Chal-^^ 



cedon 



