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sort of phænomenon, never hitherto honoured with an adequate description. If it should appear to the Royal Society in the same light, they will excuse the trouble given on this occasioon by,

 

SIR,

 

Your much obliged,

 

and most obedient,

 

humble servant,

Christ-Church, Oxon.
Aug. 29, 1764.

 

John Swinton.

 

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LIV. Some Remarks upon the Equation of Time, and the true Manner of computing it. By Nevil Maskelyne, A. M. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and F. R. S.

 

Read Dec. 13,
1764.

THESE remarks were wrote above a twelve-month ago, and would have been then communicaled to the Royal Society, had not my voyage to Barbados prevented it. Since my return from thence, I find part of the mistakes here pointed out acknowledged and corrected by M. Delalande, in his Treatise of Astronomy lately published, to whom I remember to have communicated my ideas on the subject, when he was in England. Nevertheless, as the error arising from

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