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Rh fix'd the vernal Equinox to the Middle of the Ram; the autumnal Equinox to the Middle of Libra; our Summer Soltice to the Middle of Cancer, and our Winter Soltice to the Middle of Capricorn. Time after the Expedition of the Argonauts, and a Year before the Peloponneian War, Methon oberv'd that the Point of the Summer Soltice pas'd thro' the eighth Degree of Cancer. every Sign of the Zodiack contains thirty Degrees. In Chiron's Time, the Soltice was arriv'd at the Middle of the Sign, that is to ay to the fifteenth Degree. A Year before the Peloponneian War it was at the eighth, and therefore it had retarded even Degrees. A Degree is equivalent to eventy two Years; conequently, from the Beginning of the Peloponneian War to the Expedition of the Argonauts, there is no more than an Interval of even times eventy two Years, which make five hundred and four Years, and not even hundred Years, as the Greeks computed. Thus in Rh