So Particulars refpe£llng the ne^M Planet. 



One of my friends, pofleffed of a poetical vein, has exprefTed 

 the order of the planets, now increafed to eight, in the fol- 

 lowing four lines, and not unhappily : 



Mercurius primus: Venus altera : Terra deinde, 

 Mars roithac : qiiintaiti fedem tibi vindicat Hera. 

 Jupiar banc ultra til. Stquitur Saturnus : at ilium 

 Uranus egreditur, non aulini dicere fummus. 



XIV. So?nc Part'icidurs refpeding the new Planet Ceres 

 Ferdinandea. 



\ N the two preceding papers our readers are put in poflef- 

 fion of everv thins relative to the difcovery of this planet. 

 The following are fome of the obferved places of the Ceres 

 Ferdinandea, upon its being redifcovered lately, and the times 

 noted are mean time. 

 1801. 



Dec. 7. Obferved by Dr. Zach of Saxe Gotha, under 

 fome uncertainty of its being the planet. 



17 3-^ ^ 185 43 n 8 o 



11. Again, by Zach, 



at "17 3 17 186 45 50 It 10 o 



26. By Mechain, at Paris, 



at 16 10 48 188 24 49 12 o 43 



Feb. 3. By the aftronomer royal, Greenwich, 



at 16 II 15 188 43 o 1 12 39 o 

 4. at 17 25 46 188 43 o 13 44 o 



12. at 15 4 12 188 30 o ^3 33 o 

 On the 7th of February and fubfequent days, it was ob- 

 ferved by Dr. Herfchel at Slough, and aHo by Alex. Aubert, 

 efq. at his obfervatory at Highbury Houfe. 



The ftate of the weather at Slough did not admit of Do6lor 

 Hcrfchel's feeing the new planet, till Monday night the 8th 

 current, he having prcvioufly received dillin<Sl notice as to its 

 place from his friend Dr. Mafkelyne, the aftronomer royal, 

 who ft)r the firft time obferved it, like a ftar of the eighth 

 mairnitude, on the 4th current, in the morning. On the 

 ^tirand loth of February at night. Dr. Ilerfchel again traced 

 the planet, and perceived its motion. It was not however till 

 the morning ot the fucceediiig day, that through a much 

 clearer air, and at a more favourable altitude, with iefs 



obftrudlion 



