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fame Sort of Obfetvation with this, I fuppofe, is the 
other of the Conjundion of Saturn , Jupiter , Mars , 
Venus , and Mercury , in the Confteilation 
when the and A/iw# likewife were in Con- 
jundion in 1 j° of Aquarius , in the Time of 
Tchouenyu if). 
And to put it out 6f all Doubt, that the Chinefe 
are capable of obtruding upon the World fictitious 
Obfervations, we need no other Authority (till than 
that of the Learned Fathers themfelves. In the Year 
1725 ( k ) the MiJJionaries fent into Europe an Account 
of an Approximation of the four Planets Jupiter , 
Marsy Venus , and Mercury . Such planetary Con- 
?undions, it feems, in China y are look'd on as happy 
Omens of good Fortune to the Prince upon the 
Throne. The Chinefe therefore, as if bred up at the 
Court of Verfailles , with a true French Politenefs, 
in Compliment to their Sovereign, marled in their 
Regifters a Conjundion of all the 7. This falfe 
Account of an imaginary Conjundion, as the Learned 
Jefuit himfelf obferves, may, in future Times, be the 
Occalion of very great Errors. To the Chinefe , I 
fuppofe he means 5 for in Europe the Danger will be 
but fmallj where there are better Tables, exader Ac- 
counts, and more accurate Obfervers, than the mod 
fanguine Jefuit will pretend to be among the Chi- 
nefe. But if they would venture at recording fuel* 
a fpurious Obfervation, at a time when they were 
fure of being deteded, what may we not fufped them 
to- 
(i) Obfervat . ut fup. Tom. 2 . p. 14.9, 
fup. Tom. 2. p. 3> 
(k) Obfervat, ut 
