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Day in the Climate before it towards the Poles, In other Words, two Cities are faid to lie in diffe- 
rent Climates when the longed Day in the one exceeds the longed Day in the other by half aft Hour, 
The old Geographers reckoned but feven Climates, from the Midake they made in imagining only 
, a fmall Part of the Earth to be inhabited ; but the Moderns have corrected this Error, and carried 
the Didance of Climates to its utmod Perfection. They reckon twenty-four between the Equator 
and the Arctic Polar Circle, each of which encreafes by half an Hour in the longed Day 5 and as the 
longed Day under the Line confidsbut of twelve Hours, fo it is plain, that in the twenty-fourth Cli- 
mate, or under the Polar Circle, the longed Day confids of twenty-four Hours ; from hence to the 
Pole they reckon but fix, each of which differs in the Length of its longed Days a Month : So 
that under the Pole, if it was habitable, the Day and the Year would be the fame thing, the for- 
mer confiding of fix Months, and the Night of as many. 
By this Didindlion into Climates, we have an Opportunity of looking round, and comparing the 
feveral Countries of a like Temperature at once. By it we are enabled to judge how far one Country is 
preferable to another in its Products and Commodities, how far the Culture of the Fruitsof one Coun- 
try may be pufhed by Art in another, what Commodities may be expe&ed in a new-difcovered Land, 
and a Multitude of other curious Particulars that mud immediately occur to every Man of tolerable 
Underdanding. To further fuch Reflections, and to enable the Reader to poffefs himfelf at once of 
all the Advantages hinted at above, I fhall lay down a Table of the twenty-four Northern Climates, 
which more immediately concern us ; and when he has contemplated thefe with due Attention, I 
perfuade myfelf he will difeover many more ufeful Circumdances than I am able to mention. For 
when the human Mind is once put into the right TraCl of Enquiry, a fmall Degree of Diligence 
and Penetration will conquer all Difficulties, and open a Path to fuch a Field of Knowledge, as can- 
not but attraCt a generous and inquifitive Spirit. 
A TABLE of Climates, from the Equator to the Polar Circle. 
I. This commences at the Equator, and ends in the Latitude of 8° 34' : At its Extremity the 
Day is twelve Hours and an half. Within this Climate lie the Moluccas , th z Maldives, Malacca , 
Sumatra , and other fmaller Iflands in the Fafl-lndies. 
II. Extends from from 8° 4P to 16 0 43k The longed Day in this Climate confids of thirteen 
Hours. In it lie Abiffynia , or Ethiopia , the Kingdoms of Aden, Siam , Corromandel , and the Bland 
of Ceylon. 
III. Reaches 16 0 43' to 24 0 1 jk The longed Day here is thirteen Hours and an half. Within 
this Climate are the Kingdoms of Meccha , Arabia- Felix, Bengal, Mexico in North- America, and 
Tonquin . 
IV. Takes in from 24° 1 1' to 30° 47k The longed Day in this Climate is fourteen Hours.' 
In it lies the famous Ifland of Ormuz in the Perfan Gulph , Agra the Capital, and a great Part of 
the Dominions of the Great Mogul, Fochu in China, Alexandria in Egypt, and the Canary - 
JJlands. 
V. Extends from 30° 47' to 36° 30k The longed Day is fourteen Hours and an half: In 
which Climate lie the Territory of Babylon , Funis in Barbary, Nicofia in the Ifle of Cyprus, Nan- 
kin and Pekin in China, Rhodes , and Ijpahan , with the Country adjoining in Ferfia . 
VI. Commences in 36° 30', and reaches to 41 0 22k The longed Day here is fifteen Hours. 
In it lie Lijbon , and the bed Part of the Kingdom of Portugal , Palermo in Sicily , Madrid in Spain , 
the bed Part of Greece, Af a- Minor, the Perfan Provinces on the Cafpian-Sea , Meched, the intended 
Capital of that Empire by the Shah Nadir, Part of India , and Great-Tart ary, Corea, and Japon. 
In North- America, a Part of Calfornia, the Kingdom of New-Mexico , the French Provinces of 
Louvifiana, Spanijh Florida, Georgia, Part of South - Carolina, the Bahama-Ifands , and the 
Azores . 
VII. Reaches from 41 0 22' to 45 0 29k The longed Day fifteen Hours and a half. In its Bounds 
are comprehended Bifcay , and all the Northern Provinces of Spain, the Southern Provinces of 
France , Milan, Rome, Venice , Belgrade, Constantinople, the Black- Sea, Georgia, the Cafpian , the Sea 
of Aral, Great -Tart ary, Tangut „ Land of Tedfo. In North-America , Nova- Albion, and the hi- 
therto undifeovered Part of the Continent, the Sources of the Mififppi , the Lakes and Country of 
Iriquois, Boflon in New-England, and Port-Royal in Nova-Scotia. 
VIII. Extends from 45 0 29' to 49 0 ik The longed Day fixteen Hours, under which Climate 
lie Parts and the middle Provinces of France, Vienna , Hungary , Crim-Tartary, Great -Tart ary , 
Part of the Land of Tedjo, the Company’s Land and other Difcoveries by the Butch in the Eaf -In- 
dies. In North-America, a vad unknown Continent, the Upper-Lakes, Canada, Nova-Scotia, and 
Newfoundland . 
IX. Commences at 49 0 1', and ends at 5 1° 58k The longed Day fixteen Hours and an half In 
this Climate lie London , Rouen , Amiens , Prague , Frankfort , Cracow, the Southern Provinces of Muf- 
coyy, and both Tartaries . In North-America, Part of Canada , the Str eights of Bell-Ifle , and fome 
pf Newfoundland. 
X. Beginning at 5 1° 58 , and reaching to 54 0 29. The longed Day feventeen Hours. In this Cli- 
niate ai,e contained Dublin , Amflerdam , Lubeck , Dantzick, JVarfaw, Part of the Ruffian Territories, 
Both Tartaries , and in America , Part of New- France. 
XI. Extends from 54 0 29 to 56° 37k The longed Day feventeen Hours and an half. la this 
Climate we find Edinburgh , Copenhagen , Wilna in Lithuania , Smolenfo in Ruff a , and both Tartaries . 
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