36 Mifcellanea Cutiofa. 



Magnetical Poles lie, cannot as yet be *xa££ly 

 determin'd for want of fufficient Data to pro- 

 ceed Geometrically ; but, as near as Conjecture 

 can reach, I reckon that the Pole, which is at 

 prefcnt neareft to us, lies in or near the Meri- 

 dian of the Lands»end of England, and not a- 

 bove (even Degrees from the Pole Ar6Hck ; by 

 this Pole the Variations in all Europe and Tartar?) 

 and the 'North Sea are principally governed, 

 though with regard to the other Nothern Pole, 

 whole fituation is in a Meridian palling about, 

 the middle of California, and about I ? gr. from 

 the North Pole of the World ; to this the 

 Needle has chiefly refpeft in all the North A- 

 msrka, and in the two Oceans on either fide 

 thereof, from the Azores Weft ward to Japan, 

 and farther. The two Southern Poles are ra- 

 ther farther diftant from the South Pole of the 

 World r The one about fixteen Degrees there- 

 from, is in a Meridian, fbme twenty Degrees 

 to the Weftward of Magellan Straights, or ninety 

 five Degrees Weft from London : This com- 

 mands the Needle in all the South- America* in 

 the Pacific^ Sea, and the greateft part of the 

 Ethiopic^ Ocean. The Fourth and laft Pole 

 feems to have the greateft Power, and largeft 

 Dominions of all, as it is the moft remote from 

 the Pole of the World, being little lefs than 

 zo Degrees diftant therefrom in the Meridian, 

 which paffes through Hollandia Neva, and the 

 Ifland Celebes about one hundred and twenty De- 

 grees Eaft from London $ this Pole is predomi* 

 nant in the South part of Africa^ in Arabia and 

 the Red Sea, in Perfia^ India, and its Wands, 

 and all over the Indian Sea, from the Cape of 

 Good- Hope Eaft wards to the middle of the great 

 South Sea, that divides Afia from America. This 



feems 



