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CHAPTER XX. 



-ON COMETS: o, THE MEANS BY WHICH TH 



MATTER OF ONE SYSTEM IS PREVENTED 



FROM INTERFERING WITH THE MATTER 



OF ANOTHER. 



THE different means which I have hitherto de- 

 tailed, by which the expansibility of the atmos*- 

 phere is limited and bounded, are parts only of 

 one general plan ; they are links belonging to a 

 chain of causes, which the GOD of Nature has 

 established, from the beginning of time, to the 

 end of it, by which not only the most minute 

 particles of matter belonging to our system, 

 but also that of the whole galaxy of hea- 

 ven, is regulated and governed. Obvious and 

 sufficient as those means appear to be, to pre- 

 vent the most dense and solid parts of this earth, 

 from ascending and interfering with the spheres 

 of other worlds, they are inadequate, and in- 

 sufficient, I apprehend, to confine, and to 

 bound within its proper limits, such portions of 

 the atmosphere as had been divested and stript 



