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oi" the field of view). ®. in ber Sapreife p. 390 ben atbrdjnitt : 

 »on some indications of very remote telcscopic branches of Ihe 

 Milky Way, or of an independent sidereal System, or Systems, 

 bcaring a resemblance to such branches.« 



" (®. 189.) Sapreife 5 314. 



'' (@. 189.) @tr SBtUiani ^erfc^el in ben Philos. Tr ans- 

 äet, for 1785 p. 21; @ir 3ol)n .^ er f c^e l, Sapreife 5 293. 

 (Siergl. aud) ©triiDe, Descr. de l'Observatoire de Poul- 

 kova 1843 p. 267-271.) 



"' (@. 189.) >il ihink«, ^ci^^t ©tr 3ol)n f? exf(i)el, »it is im- 

 possible to view Ihis splendid zone from a Centaitri to the Cros.s 

 wilhout an impression amounting almost to conviclion, that the 

 milky way is not a mere Stratum, bul annnlar; or at Icasl that 

 cur System is placed within one of the poorer or almost vacant 

 parts of its general mass, and Ihat eccentrically, so as to b«? 

 mach nearer to the rcgion about the Gross than to ihat diame- 

 trically opposile to ii.« (5)?an) ©omeruille on the conne- 

 xiou of the physical sciences 18il> p. 4i9.) 



""» (@. 189.) gapreife 5 315. 



