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Year : And becaufe the Sun flays for fome time near 
the Tropics, and pafles fo quickly over the Equator, 
every Winter there will be about twice as long as 
Summer : But, becaufe of the quick Return of Sum- 
mers, and the general Heat on the Body of Venus, 
the Winters there will be very mild? and fo will 
make the Equator, and all Places thereabouts, very 
temperate, and fit for Habitation. 
1 8, Thofe Parts of Venus which lie between the 
Poles and Tropics, and^ between the Tropics and po- 
lar Circles, and alfo between the Polar Circles and 
Equator, will more or lefs participate of the Thano- 
mena of tKefe Circles, as they are more or lefs diftant 
from them, 
19. The Places of the Equinoxes and Solftices on 
the Body of Venus go backward, or from Eaft toward 
the Weft, 90 Degrees every Year, This is not occa- 
sioned by any Mutation of her Axis from its Paral- 
lelifin ; but by the Sun’s being a Quarter of a Day 
later in crofting the Equator every Year, than on the 
Year before ; and therefore he will crofs it in a Place 
90 Degrees Weft ward of the former every Year : So that 
to any Place where he crofies the Equator at Noon, 
he will, on the Return of that Day at Noon in the 
next Year, be almoft 10 Degrees South of the Equator, 
and will crofs it at 6 in the Evening 5 fuppofing the 
Year to begin when the Sun is on the Equator, in palling 
from the Southern Tropic to the Northern. Hence, 
tho’ the Spiral, in which the Sun’s apparent Motion 
is performed, be of the fame Sort every Year, yet 
it will not be the very fame; becaufe the Sun will 
pafs vertically over all the fame Places but once in 
every four Years : And, in the above Defcription, I 
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