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of the field of view). O. in ber (§,apveifc p. 390 t>eu Qibfc^uitt: 

 »on some indications of very remote telescopic branches of the 

 Milky Way, or of an independent sidereal System, or Systems, 

 bearing a resemblance to such branches.« 



«' (@. 189.) (gapreife 5 314. 



*•» (©. 189.) etr 2BilUam Spcxfdici in l)e\\ Philos. Trans- 

 act. for 1785 p. 21; @ir 3ol)u .^ e r f d) e l, €ap reife 5 293. 

 C^I^ergl. md) ©truüe, Descr. de l'O bservatoire de Poul- 

 kova 1845 p. 267-271.) 



^^ (@. 189.) i^Ithink«, fagt ©tr 3ol)n y?erfd)el, »it is im- 

 possible to view Ihis splendid zonc from a Ccntaiiri to the Gross 

 wilhout an impression amounting almost to conviction, that the 

 milky way is not a mere Stratum, but annular; or at least that 

 our System is placed within one of the poorer or almost vacanl 

 parts of its general mass, and that eccentrically, so as to be 

 much nearer to Ihe rogion about the Gross than to that diaine- 

 trically opposite lo iL« (5!)iari) @ome nulle on the coane- 

 xion of the physical sciences 1810 p. 419.) 



•"« (@. 189.) (Sapreife 5 315. 



