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makes cut all che Variations that' have been obferved of 
kte ; and how it anfwers to our feverar remarks drawn 
from the Table. And firft it is plain ihu (ouIl Europem 
North Pole being in the Meridian of the Lands end of Eng- 
land) all places more Eallerly than that will have it on the 
Weft fide of their Meridian ; and confequently the Nee"* 
die, refpedling it with its Northern pointy will have a 
Wefterly variation, which will ftill be greater as you go 
to the Eaftwards, till you come to fome Meridian ofl{iiJ]m 
where twill be greateft, and from thence decreafe again* 
Thus at Brefi the Variation is but ildegrees, ^tLG7idon 
4 i degrees : but at Dant^cJ^j degrees WcQ., To the left- 
ward of the Meridian of the Lands end, the Needle ought 
to have an Eafterly variation : were it not that (by apr 
proaching the American Northern Pole, which lieb on the 
weft fide of the Meridian , and feems to be of greater force 
than this other) the Needle is drawn thereby leftwards 5 
lb as to counterballance the direftion given by the Euro^ 
fmn Pole , and to make a fmall weft Variation in the Me- 
ridian of the Lands end it felf Yet I fuppofe that about the 
Meridian of the l^kTercerayOXit neareft Pole may fo far pre- 
vail as to give the Needle a little turn totheEafti though, 
but for a very fmall fpace: the Counterballance of thofe 
two poles permitting no confiderable Variation in all the 
Eaftern parts of thQ Atlantick^ Oceans nor upon thtWeJl 
Coafts of England and Ir elands France^ Spain ^ and Barbary. 
But to the Wejiwards of the A^res the Power of the 
merican Pole overcoming that o{ the European^ the Nee- 
dle has chiefly refped thereto > and turns ftill more and 
more towards it as you approach it. ^ence it comes to 
pafs that on the Coaft of Virginia, Nm-England^ New 
fomdhxii ^ d^vidLinHudfonS'SirdXts the variation.is Weft* 
ward; thatitdecreafesasyougofrom thence towards Eu- 
rope\ and that it is lefs in Virginia^ and "Nevo. England than in 
NjW'fQmA Land ,and Htidfons firaights. This Wefierly 
vari«, 
