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THE MINOR PLANETS. 



to those who have considered the facts and phenomena now described. It is 

 a globe whose diurnal motion is such as to give it days of the same length ; 

 its seasons succeeding each other in the same manner, and are limited by the 

 same extremes of temperature. Its latitudes are diversified by the same torrid, 

 temperate, and frigid zones, and the same varieties of climate. Its surface is 

 characterized by a like distribution of land and water ; and, like the earth, it 

 has its continents, islands, and seas. It is invested with an atmosphere, sup- 

 plying doubtless all the interesting objects and advantages which result from 

 our own. 



