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XVIII. A Letter from the Widow of the late 
Mr. John Senex, F.R.S. to Martin Folkes, 
Efq\ Prefident of the Royal Society, con- 
cerning the large Globes prepared by her late 
Hufband , and now fold by her f elf , at her 
Houfe over-againfi St. Dunftan’s Church 
in Fleet-ftreet. 
SIR , 
Read Jan. 19 f |'VrIE Royal Society being lately acquainted 
1748-9. with f ome Improvements that were laid 
to have been made upon the Globes at Nuremberg , and de- 
fired to encourage and recommend the fame, I am obliged 
to return you my moll grateful Acknowledgments for your 
kind rnterpofition in behalf of mine. It is fufficiently known, 
that Works of Art, made in our own Country, have, for 
the moft part, a Degree of Exadlnefs much fuperior to 
chofe of foreign Countries: And I hope I may be allowed to 
fay in particular, and without Difparagement to the Per- 
formances of others, that my Globes will be found, upon 
Examination, as truly made, as accurate, and as well 
adapted for the Purpofes of Geography and Aftronomy, 
as any now extant. For (not to mention that the Terrejirial 
rs formed from the beft Maps that could be made or pro- 
cured, and contains no material Error in the Situation of 
any Places where Obfervations have been really and truly 
made) the Celeflial , upon the niceft Examination, will be 
found to have this Advantage above all others, that the 
Figures of the Conjlellations there given, were originally 
delineated by a Gentleman, whofe Skill in Performances 
of this Nature was very well known and allowed ; under 
the Diredtion of the great Dr. Halley , to whofe Kindnefs 
my late Hufband was upon all Occasions particularly in- 
debted* 
