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" fo long a night, or dark and cloudy 
" weather, efpecially being without any 
" help to calculate the length of a re- 
" gular day. 
" Farther, in the years when they 
" placed the total difappearance of the 
" fun on the tvventy-lixth of October, 
c: their calculation muft have been ten 
" days too early; or they rauft have lived 
" in latitude 74 41 '. which cannot be,. 
c£ unlefs we fuppofe them to have re- 
" fided on Bear-I/Ianci, which lies in 
" that latitude. 
" If we fix the place of their abode, 
Ci according to the Map, in latitude fe- 
ct ventv-feven and a half decrees, the 
" fun there would appear on the horizon 
cc for the fir ft rime on the fourth of Fe- 
" brnary, would friine continually from 
" the eleventh of April to the eighth of 
" Auguft, and totally difappear on the 
4 * lixteenth of October. 
If 
