THE EARTH. [Lesson VI. 



The Earth is attended with a satellite, which 

 adds greatly to our comforts and greatly to our 

 pleasures : I dare say you will wish to be ac- 

 quainted with its nature and size, when I tell you 

 that this satellite is no other than the Moon, which 

 with a 



- pleasing light 

 Shadowy sets off the face of things. MILTO.V. 



But as this heavenly body is of such importance 

 as to deserve a separate description, I shall gratify 

 your curiosity in a future Lesson. 



iu a manner conformable to the most generally received opi- 

 nion : I have also, in those places where I have spoken of 

 the heat produced by the action of the Sun's rays, generally 

 called it the solar heat; as it would not be right to alter 

 the mode of expression most commonly used, until the 

 premises upon which such alteration is grounded, are entirely 

 acceded to. 



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