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Revolution about it, and that so quickly as in half a Month's Time; [[underlined]] it [[/underlined]] revolves equally about its own Axis nearly perpendicular to the Plane of the Moon's Orbit; and has all ye while one and the same [[underlined]] Vertex[[/underlined]] of the [[Spheroid??]], [[underlined]] turned[[/underlined]] sensibly, or at least nearly, towards the second Focus: Because the Time is too short for the unequal and oblique Attraction of the Spheroid towards the Earth to act much upon [[underlined]] that Mass,[[/underlined]] especially if [[underlined]]it [[/underlined]] differs but little from a Sphere; or if the Sun's Parallax be very small; or if the Moon describes an [[underlined]] Anti-Stereographic Orbit.[[/underlined]] And it is well known that the Areas described about the main Focus, in an Orbit nearly Circular, are sensibly proportional to the Angles described about the second Focus.
16. Besides, if there be an Ocean or any [[underlined]] vast Sea [[/underlined]], in any Part of the Moon; its too great Ebbing and Flowing would be best moderated, by the aforesaid Position of the [[underlined]] Axis [[/underlined]] of the Spheroid, [[underlined]] directed [[/underlined]] towards the second Focus; especially when this Focus is not far from the Line, that joins the Centers of the Moon and of the Earth.
17. Now let us consider how the Dichotomys ought to appear in that Spheroid, and likewise in a Sphere, about the Times of the Quadratures, in the first and ^ [[insert]] in the [[/insert]] last Quarter of the Moon. 
18. In a Stereographic Orbit, in the first Quarter of the Moon, the Dichotomy of the Sphere precedes the Quadrature of the Sphere about the third Part of an Hour, according to Sir [[underlined]] Isaac [[/underlined]]; and even by four Hours at least, according to my Demonstrations. And the Dichotomy of the Spheroid precedes still a longer Time the Quadrature.
19. When the Dichotomy was observed at [[underlined]] Worcester[[/underlined]], the Moon's ascendent Node was in 24 [[degree symbol]] 33' of [[underlined]]Leo:[[/underlined]] The Sun's Place in 5[[degree symbol]] 14' of [[underlined]] Gemini[[/underlined]]; having yet a few Degrees above one ^[[insert]] sign, [[/insert]] to reach his own Apogee