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_ out the light or heat of our sun, and without the uniform move- 
. 
the study of our own globe we learn that it has been rent and 
they see the liquid fire rushing upon them from the volcano, or 
Stand above the yawning crevice in which the earthquake threat- 
ens to overwhelm them. Who can say that there is a limit to 
agencies like these ? 
the law of planetary distances, 
planet would be fo 
. - Ceres, 
in 1801; Pallas, the 
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om. 
ered a ninth fragment called Metis. Ar. G 
Of Naples, discovered another, which he calls Hygeia; and 
Within the last two months, the same astronomer has discovered 
the eleventh fragment, to which he has given the name of Par- 
Who could dare to assert that they may ig 
