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33 
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49 
10 
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40 
39 
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4 
43 
34 
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02 
33 
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22 
10 
44 
1 1 
3° 
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3 2 
33 
2 5 
20 
20 
46 
30 
By this, I think, it pretty plainly appears, that 
the centre of the fhadow paffed fo tar from any place, 
where we can reafonably fuppofe the battle between 
the Lydians and Medes to have been fought, that 
this can hardly have been the eclipfe mentioned by 
Herodotus. 
Father Hardouin, in his chronology of the Old 
Testament, reje&s this eclipfe, as not happening, 
he fays, in the reign of Cyaxares, but in that of 
Aftyages ; not on the fourth year of the Olympiad, 
but a month before it began j as falling out too 
late in the day ; the greateft obfcuration being (at 
Sardes, I fuppofe he means) fcarce half an hour be- 
fore fun-fet i and not total, or central, or 12 .f 6 ' di- 
gits, as Riccioli makes it, but almoft 9. Tho’ Pliny 
therefore fays this eclipfe was Olymp. xlviii. 4. & 
a. v. c. clx. yet fix MSS. he obferves, in the 
French king’s library, have clxx. and fo mod printed 
copies. He thinks therefore, that, inftead of clxx 
the number fhould be clvii. which, he fays, is 
Olympiad xlviii. 4. and the year before Chrift 597 ; 
when there was an eclipfe of the fun, on Wednefday 
July the p, at 6 of the clock in the morning. 
This 
