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who are pleased to try the experiment, and trust to [[strikethrough]] fact [[/strikethrough]] matters of fact, rather than [[strikethrough]] theory [[/strikethrough]] the present theory of mechanics, will be convincd, that [[strikethrough]] what I have related [[?]] is [[/strikethrough]] ^ [[insertion]] these truths [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] are [[/insertion]] sufficient to try the evidence of what Mr. Ludlam has advanced, p. 126. Prob.I. of his Astronomical Observations, made at Cambridge, in the years 1767 & 1768, which is briefly as follows.