eet Mr. BOWDOIN on an all-furrcunding Orb, 
“One of them, Dr. Smith, in his Syftem of Optics,* obfervesy — ——— 
that ** Hugenzus, in the year 1656, looking by chance througlr a 
a large telefcope, at three fmall ftars, very clofe to one another, 
in the middle of Orion's Sword, faw feveral more as ufual. 
But the three little ftars very near one another, (marked 0 by á 
Bayer) together with four more, fhoneout asit were through à 
awhitif cloud, much brighter than the ambient fey = which m 
being very black, caufed that lucid part to appear Jie an aper- 
ture, which gave a profpett into-ubrigbter region. He viewed » 
it many time, and found it continued in the very fame place; 
and of the fame fhape as the figure reprefents ; [See plate TI. ^ — 
fig. 8.] and called it Protentum cui certe. fimile aliud n ufguars H 
apud reliquas fixas potuit ånimadvertere” = i i 
T He alfo obferves, that ** in the Philofophical T dans t 
there is an account of a later difcovery of five more fuch lucid me, 
Spits, though lefs confiderable than this of Hugenius ; the mid- 
die of which, we are there told, is at prefent in n.. 19?. 
with fouth latitude 28° 45' ; and that it fends forth a radiant 
beam into the fouth-eaft, as another in the girdle of Androiti 
da feems £6 do into the north-eaft. It is alfo there. remarked 
‘that though thefe fpots are in appearance but finall, | | 
of them but a few minutes in diameter ; yet, fince they 
among the fixt ftars, as having no annual parallax, they car 
fail to occupy {paces immenfely great ; and, perhaps,- not lefs 
than our whole folar fyftem : in all which paces, it ould ízem, 
| that there is a perpetual uninterrupted day." s 
Nd is fue ANA 
bol a Mert uU. 
: " E WARN Ph 
P. 445—8 ee 
e E No. 347 Joneri Abr. vol. iv, K 224 ^ 
