Ivlifcellanea Curio fa. 1 1 



the Pole, (as£P. £ P, Fig 3.) whereby the 

 Parallels to the Equator , as they be nearer to 

 the Pole, do continually decreafe. 



11. And hereby a degree of Longitude in 

 fuch Parallels, is lefs than a degree of Longi- 

 tude in the Equator, or a degree of Latitude. 

 12. And that, in fuch proportion, as is the 

 Go-fine of Latitude (which is the femidiamiter 

 of fuch Parallel,) to the Radius of the Globe, 

 or of the Equator. 



13. Yet hath it- been thought fit (for fo me 

 reafons) to reprefent thefe Meridians, in the 

 Sea Chart, by Parallel ftraight lines *, as E P, 

 EP. 



14. Whereby, each Parallel to the Equator 

 (as L A) was reprefented in the Sea-Chart, 

 (as /^,) as equal to the Equator E E : and a 

 degree of Longitude therein, as large as in the 

 Equator. 



15. By this means, each degree of Longi- 

 tude in fuch Parallels, was increafed, beyond 

 its 3 aft proportion, at fuch rate as the Equa- 

 tor (or its Radius) is greater than fuch Paral- 

 lel, ( or the. Radius thereof-) 



i<5. But, in the Old Sea-Charts, the degrees 

 of Latitude were yet reprefented (as they are 

 in themfelves) equal to each other-, and, to 

 thofe of the Equator. 



17. Hereby, amongft many other Inconve- 

 niencres, (as Mr. Edward Wright obferves, in 

 his Correction of Errors in Navigation, fir ft ptt- 

 blifhed in the Year 1 599?) the reprefentation 

 of Places remote from the Equator, was fo di~ 

 ftorted, in thofe Charts, as that (for inftance) 

 an Ifiand in the Latitude of 60 degrees, (where 

 the Radius of the Parallel is but half fo great 

 as that of the Equator) would have its Length 



