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ed ill this table 3 2 claira that diftinclion. Which is rather 
a larger pro^xirtion of the whole number, than is due to 
the time made up of all the days of fyzygie and quadra- 
ture, in the whole year, together with pliny’s critical 
days, thrown into one fura. For fince there were 365 days 
in the year, and the days of fyzygie and quadrature, with 
pliny’s critical days, amotmt to 1 13, out of 69 changes 
in the whole year 22 are as many as belong to thefe par- 
ticular days, upon a proportional dillribution. But in the 
preceding table, there are many alterations marked as 
c hanges, when it appears, that the weather returned to 
what it had been before the time of change, wdthin the 
fpace of 24 hours after it. Now if w'e rejec 5 l all thefe on 
both lides of the queftion (wdiich I think is the fair w^ay 
of reckoning, for fudden alterations, of fo fliort a dura- 
tion, are rather to be called irregularities than changes of 
weather), wx lliall find but 46 changes in all, from one 
fettled ftate to another, of which only 20 fell on the days 
of fyzygies, quadrature, or pliny’s days, wdiich is ftill 
more than the jufi proportion. 
But again, pliny’s eight critical days were probably 
mtended for the four days of fyzygie and quadrature 
and the four of odlagonal afpe6tr»;. For if the time 
of the conjmi( 5 tion be rightly alfumed, the mean qua- 
dratures, and the mean oppofition, and the mean octa- 
gonal afpeCt, will always fall either on one of pliny’s 
days, or on the day next to it. The deviation, I fuf- 
[n) The worclsj Quotiea in angulos foils Incldlt, imply this. 
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