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Planet entered deeper into the Sun’s dlfc than that 
fcheme in Lowthorp’s Abridgment of the Philofo- 
phical Tranfadions, Vol. I. Plate IV, fig. 1 55, Teems 
to (hew. 
My fituation is, lat. 38° 45', under a meridian, as 
near as I can guefs, ten miles eafi; of Annapolis, our 
chief town or city j and about twelve miles weft of 
Cape Henry, at the mouth of Chefopeak Bay, as laid 
down by Meftieurs Fry and Jefferfon in their map of 
Virginia and Maryland. I do not know that what I 
have here mentioned can be of any ufe ; but, if it be 
impertinent, you will be pleafed to excufe it. 
I am, S I R, 
Your very humble. fervant, 
J. Leeds. 
LXII. 
