f *9^ ) 
149 Seneclo Virginianus, arborefcens, Atrlplicis fo* 
lio, Par- Eat< 
250 Sherardia Teucrii folio flore purpureo, Vaillant 
D//c. p. 49. 
Verbena folio fubrotundo, ferrato ; flore Cazruleo, 
Sloan. Hifl- Vol. i. p. lyr. Tab. 107. f, i* 
IL Some farther Remarks on P. Souciet’x Differ- 
tations againfi Sir Ifaac Newton’j Chrono- 
logyj by Edmund Halley, Aftron, Reg, 
In a Letter to Dr^ Jurin, ColL MeX isf SfR^Sce. 
SIR, 
W H E N I gave you my Paper of Remarks 
on F. SouciePs DifTertations againfl: Sit Ifaac 
Newtons Chronology, I was oblig’d to take what 
he was pleas’d to give us out of Hipparchus's Com- 
ment on Aratus^ not having then "that Author 
himfelf by me. • Since then, by the favour of a very 
good Friend, having gotten • the Florence Edition of 
Hipparchus y Anno i5'67, I find an Argument very 
much ad Hominem, which the R. P. muft confefs 
will bring the Argonautick Expedition full as low as 
Sir Ifaac Newton makes it* 
P. Souciet in his fifth Diflertation, Page 119, 120, 
finds out a Star of the firfl; Magnitude, clofe ad- 
Joyning to that we now call the firfl Star of Aries, 
as it is in the Catalogue of Ptolemy, where it is faid 
t9 be in the Horn of Aries, and not in the £ar.^ This 
Star the R. P. fuppofes long fince to have difappear- 
ed ; but that being of old very confiderable, it was 
from this firfl Star of Aries, the Zodiack began, 
, tho; 
