Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6789

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            <s xml:space="preserve"> As by experience I have found your singular humainty, by
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            late conferences, to make good the noble fame of your great learning
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            so hath itt emboldened me by thro my Lord to request that
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            you would send me word by this bearer the variation of
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            the nedle is about Mosco: for at this present I have such
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            an ympediment fallen into my toes that that I cannot walke
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            abroade otherwise I had been the presenter of this my
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            request unto you my selfe. which if it might have been
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            should then have moved some other questions viz whether it
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            is probable that the variation ran so in any plane of the world
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            180 degrees, or the north point of the needle stand directly to the south.
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            Allso whether a shippe sailing right east, or
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            keepes upon
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            a parallell, as the common derived opinion amongst Maryners is, which
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            I think not because the east and west of the sonne also is a
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            Tangent to the parallell, but how little soever it so continues in
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            sailing, it is a portion or [???] of the great circle of the east
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            and west, and therefore (I conceive) that cannot but decline from the
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            parallell. But ceasing to trouble you with these manner of
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            questions, I crave pardon for this my boldnes beseeching </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> Att your command
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            Jo: </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> 9 Jany. </s>
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