Names of Places.

A Table fhewing the Bearing, Distance, Longeft Day, and Difference of the Meridians of most of the principal Cities! in the World, from the famous City of LONDON.

The Way Dift. longest | Difter.
or Point
in Day Merid.

of bearing Milesh m h m

PROE M.

AY what's thy choice, inhabitant of earth?

SAV

Seek'it thou the torrent of unruly mirth;
Or would'st thou folitary chufe to rove

Along the hills, or through the filent grove;
See nature spread her unexhausted store
In deferts wild, or on the fhelly fhore?
Or in the warbling woodlands hear the notes
Of feather'd fongfters from their lab'ring throats
See the swift lark on ruffet pinions flies,
And finging as he foars, ftill upward rife;
While the gay linnet ftrains his little bill,
And fweetly carrols from the neighbouring hill?
Or wouldst thou chufe the much-frequented hall,
The courts of lux'ry, and the midnight ball,
Where riot does the thoughtlefs victim feize,
And opes the door to ev'ry foul difeafe;
On which remorse, despair for ever wait ?
Repentance comes at last, but comes too late.
Remote from these, another course I chufe,
Joys more ferene, and fitter for the mufe.
Hail fweetest Solitude, to courts unknown,
And melancholy take me for thy own:
Not fuch as leads the road to dull defpair,
And points where poifon, fwords and halters are,
But of etherial form, which fhews the way
'To brightest scenes of joy, and endless day.
Wedded to thee, I'd feek fome lonely cell,
Where meek-ey'd peace, and contemplation dwell
There would I lay me near the purling rill,
Or listen to the clack of diftant mill.
And let me in fome high romantic tow'r,
With ivy clung, oft fpend the folemn hour;
And hear the foaming fea, with fullen roar,
Lafhing against the rocks that bind the shore.
And oft when night refumes her darkfome reign,
Let me in raptures 'mong the ftarry train,
View the Erratics through their orbits fly,
And fetch down wifdom even from the sky.

Of the ECLIPSES for the prefent YEAR, 1788.

Uries I and but two Eclipfes which will come within

'PON the ftricteft fcrutiny between the two lumina

the circuit of the prefent year. The firft is of the Sun, as follows. Eclipfed vifible, June the fourth.

8 h. 11 min.
9 h. o min.

Digits eclipfed 3° 59' on 's fouthern limb. The moon makes the firft impreffion on the folar difc at 96° from O's vertex on the right hand.

The fecond will be an invifible Eclipfe of the Sun Nov. 27. 6 at 6h 10' in Long. 8s 6° 16', i. e. in ↑ 6° 16′, D's Lat 9' S. The Sun will be centrally eclipsed on the meridian at 6h 13 min P. M. in long. 93° Weft, and lat. 30 South. Of this laft I will fay no more than what I have formerly obferved, viz. Nil nocet Eclipcis illis regionibus, in quibus non videtur. And in regard to the other, the great Cardan obferves that an eclipse of the Sun in the fecond decanate of II denotes piracies, murders and thefts. What other prognofticks may be made, falling in with what I have faid, or fhall deliver in the courfe of this performance. I fhall next proceed to fome obfervations more immediately adapted to the present year.

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Of the number 88, many conjectures have paffed; and history alone muft unravel the mystery. The great Regiomantanus, in the year 1475, prophefied thus upon the year 1588.

Poft mille expletos a partu Virginis Annos,
Et poft quingentos rurfus ab orbe datos,
Octagefimus Octavus mirabilis Annus
Ingruet, is fecum triftia fata feret.
Si non hoc Anno totus malus occidet Orbis,
Sinop in nihilum terra fretumque ruent ;

Cunta tamen Mundi furfum ibunt atque retrorfum.
Imperia, et luctus undique grandis erit.

Which

Which in (Srow's) English is thus.

When after Chrift's birth there fhall be expir'd
Of hundreds fifteen, years eighty and eight,
Then comes the time of danger to be fear'd,
Which all mankind with dolours fhall affright.
For if the world in that year do not fall,
If fea and land then perish ne decay,

Yet empires, ftates and kingdoms alter fhall,
And man to eafe himself fhall have no way.

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PROGNOSTICATION S.

F the tranfactions of this year, we find in hiftory the following account, viz. Poland had three king's ufurping the title while the fourth was yet unburied. Maxamilian was taken prifoner, his army overthrown, and many thousands of men, women and children taken captives by the Tartars. Setia was all on fire with tumults, and loft certain places of ftrength to the Muscovite. The Muscovite himself ran mad. FREDERIC II. K. of Denmark died. England obtained a glorious victory over the Spanish Armada: the Spaniards loft near 80 fhips, and about 20,000 men. In France the Barricado of Paris; the flight of the king thence; the flaughter of the Duke of Guife, and his brother the Cardinal of Lorrain; the death of the Queen's mother, and the overthrow which the king of Navarre gave to Duke Mercury, with the poifoning of the Prince of Conde, are part of the fubject of that year's calamities, vide Gallo Belgicus, lib. 4. The good Bishop of Rodez too, in his hiftory of Henry the Great, fays thus,Now began the year 1588, which all judicial aftrologers called the Wonderful Year, their prognostics were feconded by a number of terrible prodigies, which arrived through all Europe. In France were great earthquakes along the Noire, and likewife in Normandy. The fea was fix weeks together disturbed with continual tempefts, which feemed to confound both heaven and earth; in the air appeared divers phantafms of fire; and on the 24th of January, Paris was covered with fo horrible a darkness, that objects were fearce visible at noon day. Thus far this Rev. Prelate.

For the year 1688, I refer to the history of those times, obferving only that the revolution makes that year to England a memorable era.

A revolving century has now brought us to the year 1788, for the events of which let us wait in filent expectation. For my part I fhall determine nothing upon the nature and efficacy of certain numbers, but only obferve that the prophet Daniel dealeth much in them; and concludeth his book with this remark: Blaffed is be that waileth, and cometh to the thoufand, three hundred and five and thirty days. And St. John in his Apocalypfe (to determine the fulfilling of his prophecy) fays thus, Here is wisdom, let him that hath understanding count the number of the beaft, for it is the number of a man, and his number is fix hundred and threescore and fix.

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I now proceed to a continuation of what I promised in my laft. I obferved in my last production, that the great Alpha and Omega, who governs the vaft fabric of the universe, and knows every mutation thereof; he to whose allfeeing eye, ages past, ages prefent, and ages of ages to come, are all but one continued now, has been graciously pleased by various methods to communicate, from time to time, fo much infight into what should be hereafter, (as to his divine wisdom feemed proper) to the children of the fallen Adam, in dreams or vifions of the night. Some ftriking inftances I have already collected from the best authors of prophane hiftory; but not to be too prolix, at the fame time to bring the matter home to every chriftian reader, I fhall now confine myfelf to holy writ; and herein I obferved that remarkable prediction of the fate of Abraham's feed, foretold in a dream for four hundred years to come. When the fun was down, a deep fleep fell upon Abraham, and lo a horror of great darknefs fell upon him, vide Gen. 15. Again, when Jacob left his father's house and journeyed to Padan Aram, we find he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, and there he beheld in a dream, a ladder reaching up to heaven, and the angels of God afcending and defcending on it, and above all food the Ancient of Days, and promised him the land whereon he lay, his almighty protection whereever he went, an innumerable pofterity; and that in his feed fhould all the families of the earth be bleffed, vide Gen. 28. Jofeph when yet a boy had two dreams, which you will find recorded in the 37th chap of Gen. and which were verified in his life in a most amazing and extraordinary manner. In the 40th chap. of the faid book we find Jofeph in prifon, interpreting