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gree amongft tliemfelves, and the Jrahick Copies a* 
mongft themfelves, The beft way to end the difpute, 
will be, to give credit concerning the Latitude ol By- 
$^antium y neither to the Greeks^ nor Arabians, And 
that I have reafon for this affertion, appears by fevcral 
obfervations of mine at with a bra(s Sex- 
tant of above 4 foot Radius. Where taking, in the 
Summer Solftice, the Meridian Altitude of the Sun, with- 
out ufingaiiy <;Tf oc^aCpa/pgc^^-, for the Parallax, and refrac- 
tion, (which at that time was not neceffary,) 1 found 
the Latitude to be 41 degrees minutes. And in this 
Latitudein the Chart I have placed Byzantium, and not 
in that either of the Greeks, or Arabians. From which 
obfervation, being offingular ufe in the Rectification of 
Geography, it will follow by way of Corollary, That 
all Maps for the North ^2i^oi Europe, and of ad- 
joining upon thQ BofphorusThraciiis, x]\q Pontm Euxinm, 
and much farther, are to be corrected j and confequent- 
ly the fituation of moft Cities in JJia properly lo cal- 
led, are to be brought more Southerly then thofe of 
Ttolemy^ by almofl two intire degrees, and then thole 
of the Arabians, by alraoft four. 
Concerning T{hodes, it may be prefumed, that, hav- 
ing been the Mother, and Nurfe of fo many Eminent 
Mathematicians, and having long flourifhed in Navi- 
gation, bythe dire(9:ion of thefe, and by the vicinity 
of the Phivnicians, they could not be ignorant of the 
precife Latitude of their Country, and that from them 
Ptolemy might receive a true information. Though 
it cannot be denied, but that in places remoter 
from Alexandria, hath much erred. 1 ftiall only in- 
ftance in our own Country, where he fituates AoyJ^iW, 
that is London, in 5-4 degrees of Latitude ; and the r 
piiodv ov the middle of the J/le of Wight ^ (which in the 
pruited Copies is falfly termed iiiKTvjajf , but in the MSS. 
rightly t^m-^J in ^2 degrees and 2,0 minutes of Lati- 
tade. 
