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*• in our vefTel, which I employed for 
tC making my obfervations." From hence 
I conceived this inftrament to have been 
what we call a Jacob's ft a jf 3 or fome thing 
like it. 
When I queftioned them concerning 
the appearance of the moon, they told 
me, that fhe fhone in winter for almoft 
two months continually, and that fhe rofe 
higher above the horizon in proportion 
as the days grew fhorter. I am not 
Aftronomer enough to determine whe- 
ther they told me the truth in this par- 
ticular; but I find that the Dutch, who 
wintered in the year 1576 in Neva Zemta, 
in the feventy-fixth degree of north la- 
titude, give a fimilar account of the 
moon's courfe above the horizon during 
the fun's abfence, which I will here lay 
before the reader. 
" On the firft of November, in the 
:; evening, we faw the moon rife in the 
'' eafr, and the fun was fuiriciently raifed 
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