needful to preferve the material Sytem. - 221 
which to deduce their reality : unlefs the aperture, or gap afore~ 
mentioned, with what it difclofes, be admitted as fuch. : 
The phenomena, exhibited through that aperture, are indeed 
remarkable ;.and may indicate an exterior orb, or the bright re- 
gion between that, and the orb, which more immediately fur- 
rounds us :. in which bright region,. as well as in fome other 
of the lucid {paces in the. expanfe,. there feems to be an unin- 
terrupted and perpetual day... 
If in fact there be fuch an aperture, the fame appearances with 
thofe, from which it was deduced, may indicate other apertures in 
the other lucid fpaces, and in the Milky Way : for the afcertain- 
ing. of which, the obíervations of the ingenious Mr. Herfibell, 
_with his largeft magnifiers, fhould he think proper to apply 
them for that purpofe, might happily conduce. 
Among the purpofes, for which thofe apertures were intend- 
ed, if they really exift, this may be one,—to give to the zzzra- 
erbic and tranf-orbic fyftems fome intimation of each other, 
. and of their mutual relation ; and to afford them a glimpfe of 
the grand. complicated fyftem, of which.they are parts... 
The immenfity of thofe orbs doth not invalidate. their. exif- 
tence :: on the contrary, immenfit ity is fo congenial to our ideas 
of the Creator, and his works, that. it affords, as applied to 
thofe orbs, an internal prefumptive proof of their reality. i; 
On the fuppofition ef their exiftence, what an aflemblage of 
glorious bodies do they exhibit ! peopled by an unlimited va- 
riety of beings, and arranged in a gradation beautiful and afto- 
nifhing! Trace the gradation from the fmaller to the larger 
planets, circling around their fun, and with him forming a mag-- 
nificent fyftem ! Trace it from that fyftem, through fuccef- 
five fyftems, to their furrounding orb! Trace it from orb to. 
orb, 
