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tion of Declination is inereafed or diminifhed, as 
thofe Stars which lie near the Equinodial Colure: I 
will give you alfo the Comparifon between the Hypo- 
thecs and the Obfervations of n ^Orfa Major is, that 
which was fartheft South about the 17th Day ot Janu- 
ary 1718, agreeable to the Hypothecs. The following 
Table fhews how much more Northerly it was found 
by Obfervation in feveral Parts of the Year, and alfo 
what the Difference Ihould have been according to the 
Hypothefis. 
1727. d. 
The Difference of 
Declination byOb- 
fervation.v, ^ 
The Difference of 
Declination by the 
Hypothefis. s 
1728. d. 
The Difference of 
Declination byOb- 
fervation.. ^ 
The Difference of 
Declination by the 
Hypothefis. ^ 
September - 14 
29 f 
28 f 
Jpnl - -1 6 
l8 r 
18 
- - - M 
24 f 
Mi 
May - - y 
24 f 
23 # 
October - - 16 
191 
1 9 # 
June - - y 
3 * 
31 f 
November - 1 1 
l°f 
— — - 2. y 
3 f 
34 * 
December - 14 
1728 
4 
3 
July - - 17 
3 « 
3 ^ 
February - 17 
2 
3 
dugujl - 2 
3 f 
3 f 1 
March - - 2J 
ii| 
i°l 
September - 20 
z6 1 
26 i 
I find upon Examination, that the HypotheCs a- 
grees altogether as exadfly with the Obfervations of 
this Star, as the former \ for in about 50 that were 
made of it in a Year, I do not meet with a Dif- 
ference of fo much as z /f 9 except in one, which is 
’ mark’d 
