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Refen is a place mention’d Gen. x. 12. and there 
faid to lie between Nineveh and Calah. This per- 
haps may help us in fome fort towards its fituation. 
Maufil (fays Abulfeda) metropolis eft regionum Meso- 
potamia. Impofita efi Tigri , a latere ejus occiduo. 
Ex adverfum , a latere ejns eoo y eft civitas Nineveh 
minis J'epulta. Ad auftrnm Mail file? effundit J'eJe 
Zahus minor in Tigrim . 
In Abulfeda, the longitude of Maufil is 67°, and 
its latitude north 36° 30'. But in Ulugh Beigh, and 
Naffir Ettufi, it hath longitude 77 0 . The laft of 
thefe two authors agrees with Abulfeda, as to its la- 
titude, but the former of them affigns it 34 0 30'; 
which makes a difference of two degrees, or 120 
geographical miles. Chryfococca, in his tables, hath- 
MOTXOTAIN, to which he affigns longitude (£6) 6 p, 
and latitude (Ae) 35V This author reckons his longi- 
tudes cc7ro Tvs dx-pcos J'vtims So. A cItIm, as Abulfeda 
doth his. But Naffir Ettufi and Ulugh Beigh begin 
Iflands. The difference between the two computa- 
tions is 10 degrees, according to Abulfeda, tho’ others 
make it 1 f 30'. Varenius, and modern geographers,, 
place Moufol in longitude eaft from London 43 and 
in latitude north 34- 0 3*' : And this, I fuppofe, is as 
exad as any. 
In the year before Chrift, therefore, 547, the ap- 
parent time of the true conjunction was at Greenwich,, 
Odober zN 2 3 h 39' 18". 
The place of the luminaries 
Moon’s latitude north 
Semidianietcr of the earth s difk 
f O ill 
6 24 9 °‘ 
46 24 
61 18 
Semidiameter 
