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If I may take the Liberty to add any thing farther 
on this Head, next to the accurate Obfervation of the 
British Catalogue in placing the Stars themfelves, it 
fhould be the Revival of the antient Figures and Co- 
lours, as far as we can recover them. It is certain 
the Invention was very antient, if we fuppofe the 
Defcriptions Eudoxus has given us, taken from Ob- 
fervations long before his Time, when the Solffitial 
Colure palled through the Middle of the Great Bear y 
and the Crab through the Neck of Hydra , and cut 
the Ship between the Poop and the Maft, &c. Now 
I have mentioned the Ship , you will indulge a 
Conje&ure, that the Situation of this [juft on the 
Horizon (where they imagined the Sea) in an ere£t 
lading Pofture for fome Eaftern Expedition, and ter- 
minating their fartheft View to the South], may both 
give fome Light into their Latitude , that impofed 
this Name, and (from that, which muft have been the 
Place of the Pole to anfwer this Form) the <isEra of 
Time , wherein it was done ; for, in the prefent Dif* 
pofition, the Inhabitants of Greece could not have a 
proper View of that Conftellation, or be led to form 
it in the Manner the Antients have done. I (hall not 
here urge all the Difficulties in the old Defcriptions, 
that might have a Solution from this Method j but if 
an Alteration could be made either in the Colour or 
Attitude of the Figures y to anfwer them better, it 
would add to the Pleafure of reading fome Authors, 
and, together with that new Conftru&ion, might 
afford us fuch a View of the Heavens, as Mr. Ad~ 
difon had of Italy y when he made the Tour of it 
with the Claffics in his Hands: And, fince I have 
brought thofe Writings into the Account, you will 
allow 
