VI 
The INTRODUCTION. 
XII. Begins from 56° 3 7', and reaches to 58° 26'. The longed Day here is eighteen Hours, In 
this Climate lie Gottcngurgh in Sweden, Riga in Livonia , feveral Provinces in Mujcovy, and both 
Tart art es. 
XIII. Begins at 58° 26', and extends to 59 0 59' 5 The longed Day in it being eighteen Hours and 
an half; Within this Climate lie the City of Stockholm , the famous Part of Revel in Livonia , the 
Heart of the RuJJia Dominions in Europe and Afia, the Middle of Great-Tartary . In America Part 
of the River of St . Lawrence , New South-Wales , on the Coad of FLudfon' s-Bay , T<?rnz de Labrador . 
XIV. Commences at 59 0 59', and ends at 6i° i8h The longed Day under this Climate is nineteen 
Hours. Within it we find the Orkney- IJlands , a great Part of Norway , Sweden , RuJJia, Great- 
Tartary , Button s-Bay, Hudjon s-Str eights, and fome other Places in that Neighbourhood. 
XV. Comprehends from 6i° 18' to 62° 25'; the longed Day being nineteen Hours and an half. 
In this Climate lie the City of Bergen in Norway , feveral Parts of Finland, and many Provinces of 
the Mufcovite Empire in Europe and and the mod Southern Parts of Greenland . 
XVI. Begins at 62° 25', and ends at 63° 23'. The longed Day is twenty Hours. The mod re- 
markable Place in this Climate is Ferma-Welick , a Town in Mujcovy . 
XVII. Commences at 69° 23', and ends at 64° 16'. The longed Day is twenty Hours and an 
half. Under this Climate is Part of Finland, RuJJia , Tartary, particularly that of it to the N. W„ 
difcovered by the Ruffians in the Year 1726. 
XVIII. Extends from 64° i6 / to 64° 55'. The longed Day is twenty-one Hours. In this Cli- 
mate is the City of JDrontheim in Norway : 
XIX. Comprehends all between 64° 55', and 65° 25'; the longed Day being twenty-one Hours 
and an half. The City of Toboljki, which is the Capital of Siberia , lies in this Climate. 
XX. Begins at 65° 25', and extends at 65° 47'. The longed Day is twenty-two Hours, In 
this Climate is the Town of Vijlum in Finland , 1 
XXI. Extends from 65° 47' to 66° 6 1 . The longed Day is twenty-two Hours and an half. In 
this Climate lies the Part of Toma in Bothnia , fo often mentioned by Mr. Maupertuis , in his Ac- 
count of the Expedition of the French Academics, for determining the Length of a Degree under 
the ardtic Circle. 
XXII. Reaches from 66° to 66° 20', The longed Day is twenty-three Hours. Within this 
Climate lies the Town of Caienebourgh in Mujcovy. 
XXIII. Commences at 66° 20', and extends to 66° 28' ; the longed Day being twenty-three 
Hours and an half. Within this Climate lies the Town of Skalbot in the Bland of Iceland, 
XXIV. Comprehends from 66° 28' to 66° 3 F, The longed Day is twenty-four Hours. Within 
this Climate lies the Town of Hola in Iceland , . 
Here ends the Climate of Days, that is the twenty-four Climates, that are didinguilhed by the 
different Length of Days. Perhaps it may not be amifs to give a Ihort and eafy Rule for finding the 
Climate, in which any Place lies, without the Adidance either of Globes and Tables, and this may be 
done with fo much Eafe, that I think it impoffible, either to midake the Rule, or to meet with any 
Difficulty in making ufe of it. The Rule is this : Subdradt 12 Hours from the longed Day, and 
double the Remainder, which will give the Climate the Place is in. For Example, the longed 
Day at Paris is 16 Hours; fubdradt 12 from thence, there remains 4, double the Remainder, and it 
fhews the Climate wherein the City of Paris lies. 
Befides the Climates didinguilhed by Days, there are yet fix other northern Climates, which are 
didinguilhed by Months. And, as the Knowledge of thefe is of fome Confequence, we lhall likewife 
give a concife Account of them. 
I. Commences at 66° 3 P, and ends at 69° 48'. In this Climate, the longed Day conlids of a 
compleat Month ; in it lies the Mufcovite Lapland. 
II. Reaches from 69° 48', to 73° 37'; the longed is of two Months, or lixty-two Days Continu- 
ance. In this Climate lies Greenland, which is a Country fo exceffive cold, that the Sea upon its 
Goads is almod perpetually frozen. 
III. Begins at 73 0 3 y’, and extends to 78° 30'. In this Climate the Day is three Months com- 
pleat; in it lies Zembla Aujlralis. 
IV. Comprehends from 78° 30' to 84° The longed Day in this Climate takes in four Months ; 
jn it lies Zembla Borealis . 
V. Extends from 84° 5', to the very Pole; the longed Day here conlids of five Months, or one 
hundred fifty-five Days compleat. In this Climate lies Spitzbergen, which we call Greenland. 
VI. Immediately, under the north Pole, where there is fix Months Day, and fix Months Night ; 
but whether there be any Land, or whether, if there be Land, it is at all inhabited, remains, and 
probably will ever remain a Quediom Thefe Points of Geography have, as I obferved before, fome- 
thing in them at fird Sight, very dry and unpleafant ; but by the frequent Perufal of theffi, or having 
often recourfe to them, as they lie here in the Introduction, the Reader will foon enter into the full 
Extent of their Ufe, and apply them with Pleafure in the Perufal of the Work, I will not detain 
him with the Definitions of Continents, lllands. Capes, Promontories, Seas, Bays, &c. becaufe thefe, 
I think, are generally underdood, and where-ever I mention them, lhall be rendered fo plain, as not 
to need any Reference elfewhere. 
Thus much may fuffice upon this Subje€t, and tho’ it lies in a narrow Compafi, yet the Reader 
will find 1 ; not only ufcful, but every Way fuffident to explain, the Terms of Art borrowed from that 
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