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for the moon s acceleration, or any other caufe, the 
track here given, as you know, will be a little* dif- 
ferent. As I cannot make feveral ancient eclipfes, 
that I have tried, fucceed to my mind, without fome 
fuch fuppofition, I have done the fame with regard 
to this. What the quantity to be allowed is, I leave 
to you and others to determine : At prefent I make 
^ 45 ' J at Mr. Whifton’s rate of i' in <± years or 
thereabouts. Then 
d h i a 
The apparent time of the true con- 
junction at Greenwich iy 20 42 ip 
For the moon’s acceleration 4^ 0 
Apparent time of the moon’s con- ~~ 
junction at Greenwich corrected 17 19 yy jg 
Erom hence I find the paffage of the penumbra at 
the following times as reckon'd at Greenwich, thus : 
Times 
Longitudes 
Latitudes 
h ' » 
19 2 3 37 
i 5 > 38 37 
19 57 l 9 
v 1 // 
30 4,9 30 E 
39 5 8 10 
60 3O O 
p / t, 
3 [ 33 °N 
37 47 5° 
4 ° 4 * 20 
By this table it appears, that the center paffed 
more to the fouth than the former, and went near 
Tripoli, AraCta, Nifabin, and Ardbil. 
It is much to be wifh’d, that Herodotus had told 
us where this battle was fought ; that, by this means, 
we might have known, which of thefe two paths to 
have preferred. However, as he hath not, and there 
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