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Third, and what an exact Map of their Country the [[underline]] Academy of Sciences [[/underline]] have exhibited to the Public. However I am greatly pleased [[insertion]] to learn [[/insertion]] by Mr [[underline]] Facio's  [[/underline]] Means that all Persons are not equally indolent in Determinations of this Kind, and that the [[underline]] Dougharty's [[/underline]] have taken some Pains in determini [[insertion]] n [[/insertion]] g the Latitude of [[underline]] Worcester [[/underline]].
And since the Royal Society as a Body seem to decline this Trouble, if other qualify'd Persons would follow so laudable an Example, we might soon be enabled to give the World a much more correct map of [[underline]] England [[/underline]] than as ever yet appeared. [[underline]] I am yours, &c. [[/underline]]. R. BROOK [[insertion]] E [[/insertion]] S. Gent. Mag. 1730 p. 467 &c.
[[indent]] PS. Your [[underline]] Astronomical Readers [[/underline]] will easily perceive that what I have said hitherto, is not so much to determine the exact Quantity of the Obliquity of the Ecliptic, as to shew that it is invariable, and what Reason there is to dissent from the Determination of y [[superscript]] e [[/superscript]] [[underline]] French [[/underline]] Astronomers; they having asserted, [[underline]] that the Circle of the Ecliptic approaches the Equator at the Rate of [[/underline]] 1 [[underline]] Min. in 90 years [[/underline]]? [[end quotations, or asterix for emphasis]]  For certainly such a considerable Decrease could not escape the Observation of the Curious at [[underline]] Leak [[/underline]], by Means of that very remarkable Hill mentioned in my last. The Skilful in these Matters will readily find that the Increase of the Sun's Declination, on the Day of his touching the Tropick of [[underline]] Cancer [[/underline]], cannot amount to more than 14", not 20", as I before asserted by Mistake; and consequently as the Sun continues to emerge from behind the Hill, [[underline]] viz. [[/underline]] one Day only, in a distinct manner, as in Dr. [[underline]] Plott's [[/underline]] Time, it cannot have decreased 40" as it must have done, if the above mention'd Hypothesis were true; since that Number exceeds the said dur[[probably duration, word not finished]]

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* See the [[underline]] Memoir's De l' Acad. for [[/underline]] 1734.

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Leak was spelled Leek on the previous page.