qua!. Firft, becaufe the San, by reafonof its Apngmrn and Pe** 
rtgteum, doth not at all times of the year difpatch in one day aa 
equal Arch of the Ecliptic but greater Arches neer the Peri- 
gaum , which is about the middle of December , and leffer neer 
the Jpogaum^hich is about the middle of June : As will appear 
fufficiently by the Tables o£ the Sun’s Annual motion. Secondly 9 
though the Sun fiiould in the Ecliptic /{move alwaies at the fame 
rate i yet equal Arches of th c Ecliptic^ do not in all parts of the 
Zodiac^ aniwer to equal Arches of the MquinoBial , by which wc 
are to eftimate time .* Becaufe fome parts of it,as about the two 
Solfiicid Points , lie nearer to a parallel pofition to CnzMquittb- 
Sial, than others, as thofe about the two JEquinoSlial points, 
where the Ecliptic \ and AZquino&ial do interfecS * whereupon an 
Arch of the Ecliptic 4, neer the Solfiicial points anfwers to a 
greater Arch of the JEquiwttial , than an Arch equal thereunto 
neer the JEquinoUial points : As doth fufficiently appear by the 
'Tables of the Sunsrigbt Afcenfion ♦ 
According to the firfi of thefe caufes , we fhould have the 
iongeft natural daies in December , and the fhorteft in June, which 
if, it did operate alone, would give us at thofe times two Annual ' 
High-waters. 
According to the fecond caufe,if operating fingly, w'e fhould 
have the Iongeft daies at the two Solftices in June and December , , 
and the two fhorteft at ’the ALquinoxes in March and Septem - . 
■hen which would at thofe times give occafion of four Annual ! 
High-waters. 
But the true Inequality of the Natural Days , arifing from a i 
Complication of thofe two caufes, fometimes crofting and fome- 
times promoting each othenthqugh we fhould find fome increa- . 
fesor decreafes of the Natural dales at all thofe feafons anfwe- ■ 
Table to the respective caufes (and perhaps of Tides proportio- ■ 
nably thereunto : ) yet the Iongeft: and fhorteft natural dates ■ 
abfolutely of the whole year (arifing from this complication of: 
Caufes ) are about thofe times of Allhallontide and Candlemas \ 
(or not far from them ) about which thofe Annual High-tides ; 
are found to be : As will appear *by the Tables of ^Equation of: 
THatural daies. And therefore I think, we may with very good 1 
reafon caft this AnrmalPQnod upon that caufe, or rather com- . 
plication i 
