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Gapt. Hoxton , when at Anchor in Cbefea-Peak 
Bay, found the Latitude 37° 29' N. Off Cedar 
‘ Point in Potuxon River 38° 7 ' N. Off Cape Henry 
37° 6 ' N. And in a Letter to Mr. Elton he de- 
clares, “ That he obferved with his Quadrant both 
i4 by the Sun and Stars, in all the various Sorts of 
K Weather he met with in his late Voyage to and 
“ from Maryland, without regarding the Horizon, 
“ with as great Exa&nefs, as with Davis's Quadrant 
“ when the Sun and Horizon were clear.” 
There was likewife put into the Hands of the 
Publifher, another Letter from one Mr. John 
Walton to Mr. Elton , containing fotne Obfervati- 
ons of the Latitude in Leghorn Road, and feveral 
of the Ports of Spain , which were found, after 
repeated Experiments, exa&ly to agree with the known 
Latitudes of thofe Places : Mr. Walton adds, That 
he made feveral Obfervations in his Paffage Home, 
in hard Gales, and a great Sea, and when it was fo 
hazy, that the common Quadrant was of no ufe, for 
want of an Horizon. 
III. A remarkable Cafe of a Gentlewoman who died 
of a Hydrops Ovarii, in the Thirty-third 
Year of her Age , after haying been tapped 
Fifty-feyen times , %y Mr. John Belchier, 
Surgeon. 
I N the Year 1715, the Wife of Mr. Newberry, a 
Merchant in this City, complained of a Pain in 
her Left-Side, near her Groin, internally, which fen- 
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