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Aphelium and Penelium.whtn are the (loweft and the fwifteft An- 
nual motions in the Zodiack : ) the lattery if confidered alone, 
would caft them upon the two ^f/^/w^^xe/, and the two Solji/ceiy 
(the ttmesofthe Leaftandof the GxQ^ttii Right Afcenfiuns:) But 
if both be joyntly confidered^they rauft caft thefe (as they do the 
greateft Inequality of the Natural days) at fome intermediat 
times, hctsvQQnt\iQ Autumnal Mquinoxm September^ and the Fe- 
rigcsHmm December • and again, between ihxsPerigaHmy and the 
ioWoWmgVernal ^quinoxxn March : As is more than probable 
(without the trouble of any new computation) from the greateft 
Inequality of the Natural Days^arifing from the (ame caufes : But 
whether precifely at the lame time with that Inequality, or whe- 
ther in all parts of the world at any one time, I do not undertake 
there to determine 5 but rather believe the contrary, becaufe the 
^lifTerent Pofition of places may very much alter the Influence of 
both or either Caufes. I did only mention, as a thing very notori- 
ousjthat it doth fo conftantly fall out on the coafts of Kent^ and 
particularly oi Rumnej-marjl)^ about AUhatlontide and Candle- 
mas. 
This Account of the .^««?»<j/Viciflitude is thatoalFy, to which 
!vl Cbildrey doth except^oppofing firfi^ the Judgement of Seamen 
(more confiderable than that of the Inhabitants of RumneyfMarJh^ 
who^vrfe tofay,either that the time of the year fignifies nothing 5 
or,if at alljit is about the ^Equinoxes, Then, that if this be the 
caufe5k will be conftant, and that in February as well as in Novem' 
ien And thirdly 5that the Seamen about Weymouth hdiVt not ob- 
lerved any thing fignal about thofe Times» 
Tothe/r/^Janfwer, ifnot then, but at the iEquinoxes, then 
fo much of the Hy pothefis as concerns the Excentrtctty may be 
fpared, (or allowed to be fo little as not to be remarkable^ ) and 
that of the Obliquity alone will give a fufBcient account of it* Or if 
(to which he fcems rather to incline,) there be no fuch Annual 
Viciflitudes at all s then may that of the Oblrquity be fpared alio, 
and the Hypothecs perfeft without it. And, till fome fuch be obfer- 
ved and acknowIedged,it will be fufEcient to lay. That, though 
both the Excentrtctty and Obliquity do caufe fome Inequality in 
the Motion 3 yet fo little,as|hat in the Tydes it is not remarkable, 
they falling juft as ifthe thre| lVlotions,(Annual,Menftrual, Diur- 
nal^) were all exadlly Circular^and on Parallel -^a-^/. 
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