APPEIDIX. 



ON THE 



SCENERY IN A PATCH OF INFINITE SPACE.* 



(DEDUCED FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES.) 



" Now trace each orb with telescopic eyes, 

 And solve the eternal clock-work of the skies." 



THE SUN AND SOLAR PHENOMENA OF OUR SYSTEM. The 

 sun the central luminary of our system the scource of 

 light and heat appears to prosecute daily a stately procession 

 through the heavens, owing to the rotation of the earth 

 upon its axis, ascending like an intensely brilliant hall from 

 the eastern horizon, and declining towards the western. 

 Excepting the regions bordering on the poles, every part of 

 our globe, within the interval of twenty-four hours, is 

 brought beneath the action of the solar rays, and withdrawn 

 from them its "mountains and all hills, its fruitful trees 

 and all cedars." The unfailing continuity and nice precis- 

 ion with which this has transpired, age after age, strikingly 

 illustrates the stability of the natural laws. 



The decline of the sun to the horizon is as imposing a spec- 

 tacle as his advance to it, when the atmosphere favors the ex- 

 hibition of his descent. The most gorgeous sunsets are those 

 of the West Indies, during the rainy season ; the sky is 

 then sublimely mantled with gigantic masses of clouds, 



* Infinite space belongs to God, and to God alone. Infinite Power has 

 filled that space with suns and systems, bat there has been room for all. 

 Profettor Mitchell. 



