and the tivo inneritoft Satellites of Saturn. 283° 
north-weft, diftant about feven or eight apparent diameters 
of the planet; but 4; which was at a much leis diftance, 
was lefs perceptible. They were both too faint for meafure- 
ment. M. Harding diftincuifhed them plainly alfo; and 
both our delineations exactly correiponded. As the planet 
at an inconfiderable clevation had irradiation, and at the 
fame time a large apparent diameter, it was pofiib! e, ac- 
cording to the diftance affigned by Dr. Herfchel, that they » 
might be the fatellites; and we confidered them as fuch = 
becaufe they had a fatellite-like appearance. 
The’weather being ferene, we were able to obferve the 
Georgium planet next evening, the goth, at eight o’clock, 
through the faine reflector with magnifying powers of 180 
and 288. It was very evident that we both diftinguithed, with 
full certainty, the fame two luminous points, which we had 
feen before, at nearly the fame diftance and in almoft the 
fame relative pofitions; fo that, from their perfectly fimilar 
appearance, we had reafon to conclude they muft be the 
fame ftars. They had their fituation in ¢ and d, in fuch 
a manner that c, the moft remote, preceded the planet in the” 
diretion of its equatorial motion without perceptible decli- 
nation. 
As uranus, being then retrograde, had within twenty- 
four hours moved 2/ go! towards the weft, as was vifible 
from the neighbouring ftars, the two which we obferved, 
had they not been fatellites, muft have been feen two mi- 
nutes towards the caft. This was not the cafe; but as on 
fhe evening before, they were again vifible in ¢ and d, with 
the like relative pofition ; which fully convinced us oa they 
were fatellites. 
At eight 0 ‘clock the followi ing evening we found the fame 
luminous points, with the thirteen feet refledtor and a mag- 
nifying power of 288, at the like diftance and in the former 
relative pofition, but more towards the fouth in e and f; and 
it appeared tc our conviction, that the fecond larger fatellite, 
which the evening before preceded the planct wefiwards, in. 
the 
