[i3oo] 
Mul/eda in fomc Copies fituates thelfland Ixodes, {{or 
he mentions no Cities there^ in the Latitude of 37 de- 
grees, and 40 minutes: and the Geography of 6"«^^ /^;? 
^ly Algiorgany ^ commended by Gilbertus Gaulmyn^ ia 
3 7 degrees, if it be not by a tranfpofition in the MS. of 
the numerical Letters in^r^^/V 37 forJ(^,which by reafon 
©f their fimilitude, are often confounded in Arabick^ViSS. 
By my obfervationsunder the Walls of the City ^hodes^ 
with a fair brafs Aftrolabe oi Gemma Frifius ^ con- 
taining 14 inches in the diameter, I found the Lati- 
tude to be 37^ and fo'. A larger Inftrument Idurft not 
adventure to carry on fliore in a place offo much jea- 
loufie. And this Latitude in the Chart I have affigned 
to the City ^hodes^ {'from the Ifland fo denominated, 
mpon which on the North Eaft fide it ftands fituated,) 
better agreeing with the Arabians^ then with Ptolemy^ 
whom I know not how to cxcufe. 
Framifci 
