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proceeding from each side of the planet like large broad arches 
of light, each of them somewhat less than a quadrant, and will 
fill a very large portion of the sky, so that the inhabitants of the 
same world will behold a portion of their own habitation, form- 
ing a grand and conspicuous part of their celestial canopy, and 
at first view may imagine that it forms a celestial object with 
which they have no immediate connection. Were they to travel 
to the opposite side of the ring thev would see the habitation 
they had left suspended in the firmament, without being aware 
that the spot which they had left forms a portion of the phe- 
nomena they behold. 
As the rings revolve around the nlanet, and the planet re- 
volves on its axis, the different parts of the surface of the 
planet will present a dissimilar aspect and a variety of sublime 
scenery will be presented to view. 
The eclipses of the sun and the satellites, by the interposi- 
tion of the body of Saturn and of the opposite sides of the 
rings, will produce a variety of very striking phenomena, which 
will be changing every hour and fill the mind of the beholder 
with wonder and delight. 
From the dark sides of the rings, which are turned away 
from the sun for 15 years, a great variety of interesting light 
and shade will be presented, and during this period the aspect 
of the firmament will in all probability be most weird and strik- 
ing. The shaded side of the rings will not be in absolute dark- 
ness during the absence of the sun, for some of the 8 satellites 
will always be shining upon it, sometimes three, sometimes four, 
and sometimes all the eight in one bright galaxy of glorious 
moonlight hundreds of times brighter than our clearest moon- 
light. 
It is probable, too, that the planet itself, like a large splen- 
did crescent, will occasionally diffuse a mild splendor, and in the 
occasional absence of these the fixed stars will display their ra- 
dience in the heavens, which will be the principal opportunity 
afforded for studying and contemplating these remote lumi- 
naries. 
Those who are on the outermost ring will behold the other 
