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[[right side dated]] Leek, [[strike through]] Leads [[/strike through]]. June 26]]
[[Left margin note:  From Gents Mag. p.310. 1738]]
[[underline]] To the Lovers of Astronomical Enquiries. [[/underline]]
It is our annual Custom to make Observa-tions from our Church-yard of the Sun's setting some Nights before and after the [[underline]] 10th [[/underline]] of [[underline]] June [[/underline]], and there's no person now living that has discovered the least Variation in its Course, but as [[insert]]it[[/insert]] gradually moves to its utmost Point, so it returns in the same manner; and that the Curious may have the better Idea how it appears to us, I have sent you a Plan. [[insert]] See Fig. A7. [[strike through]] on plate [[/strike through]][[/insert]]  The only ocular observa-tion that could be made this year was the 7th, all the other Evenings now Cloud [[insert]]e[[/insert]] y. 
Gent. Mag. 1738. p 310.

[[left margin note: From Gents Mag. p.368./1738.)]]
The [[underline]] four [[/underline]] following [[underline]] Schemes [[/underline]] [[insert]] See Fig. A7. [[strike through]] on plate [[/strike through]][[/insert]] represent the four Successive Phases of the Sun in his Approach to, or Recess from the Summer Tropic, as he gradually emerges from, or absconds behind a Hill in [[underline]] Staffordshire [[/underline]] called the [[underline]] Cloud [[/underline]] 6 miles distant from a Spectator in [[underline]] Leek [[/underline]] Church-yard, as it has been observed from thence many years, for 2 or 3 Days before and after the 10th of [[underline]] June [[/underline]], (See p. 199.) Gent. Mag. 1738. p.368.

W. URBAN,
I Am very glad to find by your Correspon-dent's Answer from [[underline]] Leek [[/underline]] that the Obliquity of the Ecliptick has been invariable, as long, at least, as the oldest Person in that Town can
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