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a. Mare Hyperboreum.
6. Paludes Hyperborea:
c. Sinus Hyperboreus
d. Mare Foum
e. Mare Medi-

terraneum

f. Pontus Euxinus
Palus Mestis.
h. Mare Caffium

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i. Mare Adriaticu. k. Propontis

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Asia Minor. r. Colchis

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4. Palestina. zEgyptus &. Libya. α. Inf: Cercinna.

1. Mons Sinai. 2. M.Taurus. 3 M.Sepher. 4 MEtna. 5.M.Apenninus. 6.M. Olympus

This Scheme is the Face of the Moon as it appears through a Felef= cope at the Full, and as described by Hevelius; the Dark Parts are the Sea; the Bright Parts Land, and the long white streaks, the Illuminated top of Ridges of High Mountains.

The Spots here Described are for the main the same that are continually expos'd to our sight, on account of the exact adjustment of the Moons's Diurnal and Menftrual Revolutions, whereby almost the very same. Face is continually turned towards our Earth.

I say nothing of the Librations difcoverd in its Motions by Heveli= us, which make the Parts sometimes hidden to appear to us and thereby afford its Bordering Inhabitants (if such therebe) the glori - ous view of our Earth, which the more remote Ones can never en= - joy without Traveling a great way forso uncomon a Prospect.

That the Moon has an atmosphere about it we have lately difcovered; but that atmosphere being very thin and only visible in Total Eclipfes of the Sun, it was not necesary to reprefent it here. Senex foulp?

Piinciples of Religion,

NATURAL and REVEA LD.

In NINE Parts :

I. Lemmata; or the known Laws of Matter and Motion.
II. A particular Account of the System of the Universe,
III. The Truth of that System briefly Demonftrated.
IV. Certain Obfervations drawn from that Syftem.
V. Probable Conjectures of the Nature and Ufes of the
feveral Celestial Bodies contained in the fame System.
VI. Important Principles of NATURAL RELIGION De-
monstrated from the foregoing Obfervations.

VII. Important Principles of DIVINE REVELATION Confirm'd from the foregoing Conjectures.

VIII. Such Inferences fhewn to be the common Voice of Nature and Reason, from the Teftimonies of the most confiderable Perfons in all Ages.

IX. A Recapitulation of the Whole: With a Large and Serious Addrefs to all, especially to the Scepticks and Unbelievers of our Age.

Together with

A PREF A CE,

Of the Temper of Mind neceffary for the Discovery of Divine Truth; and of the Degree of Evidence that ought to be expected in Divine Matters.

By WILLIAM WHISTON, M. A. Sometime Profeffor of the Mathematicks in the University of CAMBRIDGE.

LONDON: Printed for J. SENEX at the Globe in SalisburyCourt, and W. TAYLOR at the Ship in Pater-nofter-Row, 1717.

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To the Illuftrious

Sir Ifaac Newton,

PRESIDENT,

And to the reft of the

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