208 Mr. Bownorn on an all-furrounding Ord, 
III. Obfervations tending t proves, by Phenomena er Scripe 
ture, the Exifience of an) Orb, which Jurround; the whole 
__wijible gigeaterial, Syfem pand which may be neceffary to pre- 
i9 E. Jrom the, Ruin, to which, without fuch a Counter- 
balance, it feans liable oF that le Principle in Matters 
G: ravitation. 
to ao By JAMES BOWDOIN, aire 
; Pr ident of. fée Aca gium of ‘Arts and: etos: 
"T the conclaton of a memoir, “entitled; e Olaieerstions 
on Light, &c.” „which I have had the honour to lay be- 
fore the Academy, it was “intimated, ‘that there are phenomena 
in nature, and other evidence, tending to prove the exiftence 
of an orb, that furrounds the whole yifible material giem, 
The evidence i is „— phenomena and. {cripture, | 
The phenomena are,—the. luminous girdle i in the blue ex- 
pante, called the Milky Way ;—other luminous appsienses in 
R: and the expaníc itfelf. ET 
To regard . to, the fumingus : gicdle,. or. ‘Milky Way. K: : 
phenomenon has been fuppofed to refult from the combined 
_luftre of infinite multitudes of ftars, too diftant to be diftinclly 
vifible. „But although it be obferved through. telefcopes, that 
there is a great number of ftars i in the Milky Way, on which 
. circumftance the fuppofition i is founded, they appear as ftars fet 
CUTE diftinguifhable from it ; and not opting to form 
the phenomenon. 
isi inconfiftent with every philofophical idea concerning thofe 
fürs. They are reprefented to be funs ; each having its fyf- 
tem | 
€ he fuppofition. not only d M with | tho. appearance, but 
