Mr\ HR&ftC-H&t'i on the pw]#? Motion 
iicoiles. 
Chang, d’aic. 
tiroire* 
(jlldll 
dedin 
- . etc 
aifon, 
A returns 
1 
/ 
- r 
// 
55 
Sirius 
ol 
— 
(3 Cvgni 
— . n 
J 
■f 
49 
Procyon 
^ 0 
3 3 
- 
47 
f Cygni 
+ 20 
+ 
34 
y Arietis 
- 14 
— 
29 
y Gemin. 
- 3 
— 
24 
Aldebaran 
+ 3 
— 
1 3 
(3 Gemin. 
- 48 
— 
16 
y Pifcium 
+ S 3 
+ 
7 
a Aquilae 
+ 3 2 
— 
4 
u Gemin. 
— 24 
— — 
1 
Fig. 4. reprefents them projected 011 the plane of the equa- 
tor. They are all in the northern hemisphere, except Sirius, 
which mu ft be fuppofed to be viewed in the concave part of the 
oppofite half of the globe, while the reft are drawn on the 
convex Surface. Regulus being added to that number, and 
Caftor being double, we have 14 Stars. Every ftar’s motion, 
except Regulus, is affigned in declination as well as in right 
. - • . , . '• e. 
afcenlion. So that we have no lefs than 27 motions given to 
account for. Now, by affirming a point fomewhere near A 
Herculis, land fuppofing the fun to have a proper motion to- 
wards that part of the heaven, we Shall fatisfy 22 of thefe 
motions. For (3 Cygni, « Aquilae, e Cygni, y Pifcium, y 
Arietis, and Aldebaran, ought, upon the fuppofed motion of 
the fun, to have an apparent progreffion, according to the hour 
circle XVIII, XIX, XX, &c. or to increafe in right afcenfion, 
while Ar&urus, Regulus, the two Stars of u Geminorum, 
Pollux, Procyon, Sirius, and y Geminorum, (hould apparently 
go 
