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ol thc Held oi' view). ©. in ber (Eapretfe p. 390 ben 9fbfd>nitt: 

 »on some indications of very remote telescopic branchcs of the 

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

 bearing a resemblance to such branches.« 



" (©. 189.) gapreife 5 314. 



»• (®. 189.) ©ir «ZBiUiam jjerfdjel in bat Philos. Trans- 

 act. for 1785 p. 21; ©ir 3*tyfl $erf<fcel, €apretfe 5 293. 

 (IPfHt ttUdj ©trnpe, Descr. de l'Observatoire de Poul- 

 kova 1845 p. 267-271.) 



•• (®. 189.) »Ithink«, faar ©ir 3ob.n Jperfdjel, »it is im- 

 possible to view this splendid zone front « Centauri to the Cross 

 withoul an impression amounting almost to conviclion, that the 

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

 our syslem is placed wilhiu one of the poorer or almost vacant 

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

 much uearer to the region about the Cross than to that diame- 

 trically opposite to it.« (SWarp ©onterüille on the conne- 

 xiou of the physical sciences 1810 p. 419.) 



100 (©. 189.) eanreife § 315. 





