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By the fame Obfervation a much greatef 

 terror is amended in the Latitude of Aleppo^ 

 in the Rudolfine Tables of Kepler^ whoflippo- 

 fes Meppo to have been the ancient Antiochia 

 ad Tmrum^ and accordingly places it Lat. 37. 

 deg. lo min. wherein he is followed by BulH- 

 aldus and others ; and feveral ,Maps have ca-- 

 pied the Miftake. But a much greater ufe 

 of it is, that thereby we are affiired, that 

 the City of AraBa^ wherein Albatani made 

 the Obfervations we have Publifh'd in the 

 Thilofoph. TranfaEh. Numb. 204. was, without 

 doubt, th<e fame which is now called Racca on. 

 the Euphrates y of which Town an Account 

 may befeen in ^^wiPi^//'s Voyages, and which 

 was not many Miles below the Place where 

 our Travellers firft came on the River : And 

 if Arecxa^ in the Language of this Country, 

 relates to Viftory (as is faid in pag, 143.) it 

 was, ddubtlefs, anciently the City JNicephorion^ 

 built by Alexander the Great ^ with which the 

 Situation exa^lly agrees. The Latitude there- 

 of was obferved by that Albatani with great 

 accuratenefs, about eight hundred Years fince ; 

 and therefore I recommended it to all that are 

 curious of fuch Matters, to endeavour to get 

 fome good Obfervation made at this Place, to 

 determin the Height of^the Pole there, there- 

 by to decide the Controverfie, whether there 

 hath really been any Change in the Axis of 

 the Earth, in fo long an Interval :^ which 

 fome great Authors of late, have been willing 

 to fuppofe. And if any curious Traveller, 

 or Merchant refiding there, would pleafe to 

 obferve, with due care, the Phafes of the 

 Moons Eclipfes at Bagdat^ Aleppo and Alexan^ 



