[ 4 5 5 J 
fettings of the ftars made in very diflant times and 
countries (24.) } the latitudes of places being un- 
attended to, and the flow motion of the fixed flars 
about the poles of the ecliptic unknown, and indeed 
unfufpedted . or disregarded afterwards, when it be- 
came fufpedted. 
But tho’ we Should grant the place of obfervation 
to have been at, or near Afcra, yet there will ftill re- 
main a difficulty, with refpeft to the time. In th& 
computation before given it hath been fuppofed, that 
Ardlurus rofe there achronically on the 60th day 
from the folftice, excluflve of the folfticial day itfelf; 
but as the particle fj.z'ia is Sometimes taken inclu- 
fively (25), we may reckon the day of the folftice it- 
(24) See the calendars in Petav. Ur analog. In qua aliorum Sc 
temporum & climatum confufione, prae aliis maxime hallucinatus 
eft Manilius 5 qui ./Egyptiaci cceli defcriptiones Romano adaptafle. 
Sc Graecanicae Barbaricaeque fphaerae obfervationes, nullo judicio, 
fimul commifcuifle deprehenditur. Bainbrig. Canicular, p. 22. 
See, likewife, Dodwcl. -Append, ad Cyprian. DiJJert. p. 19. 
(25) Thus J-i d ' ivJ.irvr J'oo duobus diebus poll. Demofih. in Mid. 
and 1<i - pit v’zTtn in Diod.Sic. p. 103. Edit, Wccbel. Poft feptem luces. 
Ovid. Fuji. l.vi.rV. 774. and what is 7 m rpi ?■« riukpa d.a.'s'Hvx/, Luke 
xxiv 7. is //.{jd Tf>btf ifii^oy.a.1. Matt, xxvii. 63. and anv- 
ko .1 eKrdJji/ ny/ip etf, in the LXX. Gen. viii. 3. is on the 150th 
day, as appears from the next verfe. The Arabs ufe their particle 
likewife in the fame manner. 
Th ° S caA-^ 
jilc ’i—Jt 

(*_/ 1 converfa eft Keblah ad Caabam menfe Rageb, menftbus poll fu- 
gam 17. vel juxta alios menfe Shaaban interdi&um vero vinum 4. 
poft fugam annis, anno fc. quarto. Alkodaius in Pocock. Spec, tiijl. Arab > 
f- * 75 ' Self 
