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north latitude, with the hours, half-hours, and quar- 
ters of time, where vertical. This was on the 18 of 
May in the proleptic Julian dyle : in the year of the 
Julian period 4111, the 603 year before the vulyar 
aera of Chrid. 
The eclipfe was total 4, minutes and a half, where 
the battle was fought. The fhade enters our map, in 
the defert of Barca in Africa, foon after 9 o’ clock 
in the morning. It traverfes the mediterranean fea, 
and ifle of Cyprus ; enters Afia Minor at Cilicia, a 
little before 1 r ; about half an hour after, it paffes 
the city now called Erzerum ; near which I fuppofe 
the battle was fought, as being at the boundary be- 
tween the two kingdoms. Jt is between the river 
Halys, and the river IVlelas, on which was the antient 
city Melitene. The river Addas runs eastward into 
the Euphrates. At half an hour after 12, the lhade 
enter’d upon the Calpian fea, and at 1 upon the Kal- 
muc Tartary. 
\\ e fee here an authentic parapegma in antient 
hidory, deduced from adronomy : and we fee a re- 
markable inftance, brought about by Divine Provi- 
dence, of a mod furious war, terminated by the in- 
tervention of an eclipfe. But echpfes, fay w r e, are 
natural and necef ary phenomena, confequent to the 
eftabliihed motions' of the celedial bodies. True ; 
Providence order d tnem at the beginning, as well as 
comets, and earthquakes, and the like portentous ap- 
peal ances, as antiquity rightly denominated them, 
and regarded them : but Providence did not there- 
by redrain its own power and authority, to render 
them at the fame time of moral ufe. Providence 
can fo over -rule the a&ions of us men, as to bring 
them to coincide with thefe fore-ordain’d and necef- 
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