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or the fmall retardation of the earth’s diurnal motion^, 
the place of the center will be found at the following 
times, as reckoned at Greenwich, thus. 
Times. 
Longitudes. 
Latitudes. 
. d h / /■/ 
0 / // 
0 / // 
Odlober 21 23 2 31 
39 1 40E 
34 20 yoN 
2 3 J 7 3 i 
+/ 38 3 ° 
30 24 30 
23 32 31 
68 9 40 
26 y6 40 
By this table then it appears, that the center of the 
fhadow palled more northward than the former track) 
and went over Kerkilia, not improbably, the Carche- 
mifh of the prophet Jeremiah, and a fmall matter to 
the north of Bagdad. It is not improbable therefore, 
that it crolfed the Tigris not far from the place where, 
it feems by Xenophon’s account, Larilfa was fituated, 
and where, confequently, it would caule fuch a dark- 
nefs, as might well be attended with the efifedts he 
mentions. 
This eclipfe is, I take it, no inconfiderable acqui- 
iition to hiftory and chronology, and is at the fame 
time a confirmation of the fufpicion, that, in thefe 
very antient ones, there is fome allowance or other to 
be made for the influence of fome caufe, whatever it 
may be, hitherto not fully determined. This muft 
be left for future obfervations. In the mean time how- 
ever it may be of fervice to the fcience of aflronomy, 
to examine all the pafl: eclipfes, that can be come at, 
and compare them with circumftances in the bell 
manner we are able. 
I have three more by me, which may fome time 
or other make their appearance in the fame manner 
c with. 
