and the two innermoft Satellites of Saturn. 987 
teen feetitelefeope in g 5. and haying defired M. Harding, who 
often) diftinguithed delicate points better, than myfelf,.,to 
_ direét his attention towards that part, he affured me that he 
ofaw very clearly, not only a point inf, but alfo a fecond 
pale ‘luminous point in e, the pofition and diftance of both 
-owhich points he. delineated very accurately, as they, were 
feen with) a front view, about 11h. 34m. true.times and 
- thatiat f was found to be in the orbit of the firft, and that at 
elim the orbit of the fecond inner fatellite, . It was not tll 
» the next day that I difeovered my error occafioned by. the 
/ front view; and I found, to our great fatisfaGtion, that the 
duninous point, feen at ein the orbit of the fecond inner 
‘Mfatellite, was actually the fixth or fecond inner fatellite:. for, 
asvit was feen by a front view in e, it muft have been. feen 
by the:common mode of obfervation towards the eaft at d. 
Through mifiake, we by no. means fufpected the, fixth 
fatellite in e3 ands) therefore, the obfervation was.proved to 
» befo much the more correct when calculation fhewed that 
‘the fixth fatellite had actually been, according to, the front 
‘view, im that pofition, or, according to the ufual mode of 
obfervation, in d: From io h. 44m. on. the, evening 
© Peb. goth, till 11h. 34m. on the evening of the ax1fi, 
there had elapfed 24 hours 50 minutes,. in which time this 
Sfatellite, aveording to its period of 32 hi 53 mug fee: had 
pafled over 2 of its period + 5!;, and, confequently, nmuft 
“have ftood in d3 which’ correfponds  perfe@tly with the peint, 
)feen in e by the front view. 
 T hall here-take occafion to remark, that the pale luminous 
* point which M. Harding faw, by the front view, at f, ex« 
= galy in the orbit of the feventh fatellite, andof which } 
‘> mylelfhad a tranfient glance, may really have been, that, 
~fatellite ; for it had often happened before, that, befides feeing 
» the five old fatellites, I imagined that I faw in proportionally 
© near, mall, pale luminous points, the two inner, the fixth 
“and féventh fatellites, when the weather was not {6-fayeur- 
saat able 
