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from the eleventh of April till the eighth 
of Auguft, and mud difappear on the fix r 
teenth of Oftober. 
But though thefe good people might 
err as to the rifmg and fetting of the fun, 
and the time of its circuit round the he- 
mifphere, by taking the church-kalendar 
for their guide, yet it is not to be in- 
ferred from thence that they fell into 
any considerable miftake about the time 
of their abode in that place; for the verTel 
which brought them home, arrived off the 
ifland on the fifteenth of Augufr, which 
is the day of the Afcenfion of the Virgin 
Alary ; but our failors, who had always 
obferved the great church holidays, as 
well as they could remember them, ima- 
gined it to be the thirteenth of Auguit, 
and had not yet celebrated that fcait. So 
that there was a difference of two days 
only, which is ealily pardonable, when we 
confider that in fummcr they faw the dm 
moving round the horizon for four months 
together, and in winter were as long in 
total 
