LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. XX IX 



tne poles of the heavens ; on each, the 24 hours 

 were placed around the equinoctial, so as to shew 

 the time of the day when the sun shone out, by 

 the boundary where the half of the globe at any- 

 time enlightened by the sun was parted from the 

 other half in the shade ; the enlightened parts of 

 the terrestrial globe answering to the like enlight- 

 ened parts of the earth at all times. So that, 

 whenever the sun shone on the globe, one might 

 see to what places the sun was then rising, to 

 what places it was setting, and all the places where 

 it was then day or night throughout the earth. 



During the time I was at Sir James's hospitable 

 house, his sister, the honourable Lady Dipple, 

 came there on a visit, and Sir James introduced 

 me to her. She asked me whether I could draw 

 patterns for needlework on aprons and gowns. 

 On shewing me some, I undertook the work, and 

 drew several for her ; some of which were copied 

 from her patterns, and the rest I did according to my 

 own fancy. On this I was sent for by other ladies 

 in the country, and began to think myself growing 

 very rich by the money I got for such drawings ; 

 out of which I had the pleasure of occasionally 

 supplying the wants of my poor father. 



Yet all this while I could not leave off star- 

 gazing in the nights, and taking the places of the 

 planets among the stars by my above-mentioned 

 thread. By this, I could observe how the planets 

 changed their places among the stars, and deline- 



