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fort of phenomenon, never hitherto honoured with 
an adequate defcription. If it fhould appear to the 
Royal Society in the fame light, they will excufe the 
trouble given on this occalion by, 
S I R, 
Your much obliged, 
and mod obedient, 
humble fervant, 
Chrift-Church, Oxon. 
Aug. 29, 1764. John Swinton. 
LVI. Some Remarks upon the Equation of 
\ Time , and the true Manner of cotnputing 
it . By Nevil Mafkelync, A \ M. Fellow 
of Trinity College, Cambridge, and 
F. R. S. 
Read Dec. 13, HE S E remarks were wrote above 
I a twelve-month ago, and would 
have been then communicated to the Royal Society, 
had not my voyage to Barbados prevented it. Since 
my return from thence, I find part of the miftakes 
here pointed out acknowledged and corrected by 
M. Delalande, in his Treatife of Aftronomy lately 
publilhed, to whom I remember to have communi- 
cated my ideas on the fubjecd, when he was in 
England. Neverthelefs, as the eiror arifing from 
taking 
