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 of the Equinoctial than 23 Degrees and ; but after it hath gone so far, returns again toward it: And because the Points in the Heavens, where these Returns are made, are under the Beginnings of the Signs ♋ Cancer and ♑ Capricorn; they suppose two Circles to be there drawn in the Heavens and on the Earth, parallel to the Equator; and the most Northern of these, and which therefore is our Summer Tropick, is called the Tropick of Cancer, and the Winter, or Southern one, that of Capricorn; because they always fall at the Beginning of those Signs.

our Earth mightily, said she, for her Steadiness in her Way, and for her not going too far North or South towards the Poles: I love moderate Weather, and would have it be in neither of the Extreams of Heat nor Cold: But, Sir, this Matter now begins to clear up to me apace; when the SUn is in the Northern Tropick, I see our Days are at the longest, and all of them longer than our Nights, during the Time of his whole Stay on the North Side of the Equinoctial: Whereas the very Reverse, I see, must come to pass, while the Sun is on the Southern Side of the Line. But, pray, of what