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The Analyst.

tion cannot, whether Velocity can? And if not, whether a firſt or laſt Velocity can be conceived in a mere Limit, either initial or final, of the deſcribed Space?

Qu. 31. Where there are no Increments, whether there can be any Ratio of Increments? Whether Nothings can be conſidered as proportional to real Quantities? Or whether to talk of their Proportions be not to talk Nonſenſe? Alſo in what Senſe we are to underſtand the Proportion of a Surface to a Line, of an Area to an Ordinate? And whether Species or Numbers, though properly expreſſing Quantities which are not homogeneous, may yet be ſaid to expreſs their Proportion to each other?

Qu. 32. Whether if all aſſignable Circles may be ſquared, the Circle is not, to all intents and purpoſes, ſquared as well as the Parabola? Or whether a parabolical Area can in fact be meaſured more accurately than a Circular?

Qu. 33. Whe-