ASTRONOMICAL LABOURS OI JAYASINHA. 179 



power the lofty orbs of 

 heaven are only a few 

 leaves ; and the ftars 

 and that heavenly 

 courfer the fun, a imall 

 piece of money in the 

 treafurv of the empire 

 of the "Moft High, • 



* If he had not adorned 

 the pages of the table 

 of the climates of the 

 earth with the lines of 

 rivers, and the cha- 

 racters of grafTes and 

 trees, no calculator 

 could have conftrucled 

 the almanack of the 

 various kinds of feeds 

 and of fruits which it 

 contains. And if he 

 had not enlightened 

 the dark path of the 

 elements with the 

 torches of the fixed 

 ftars, the planets, and 

 the refplendent fun and 

 moon, how could it 

 have been poffible to 

 arrive at the end of 

 our willies, or to efcape 

 from the labyrinth, and 





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