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of the motion of tile heavenly bodies, Thofe men- ^mong thefc 



iilanders, who had aeqiH 



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me ideas of th^ heavens. 



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Bcceffi ty and a long experience, communicated them to the rifing 

 aenemtion, in ordcF to enable them to profit by their toils, and 

 the ftudy of many ^a -night paffed without ileep. Finding by cruel 

 heceffity that in an open fea nothing could guide them, but thofe 



luminaries v\^hich we fee in the day, or which give their light to 



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US in the night -i they attended to the immenfe number of fiars 

 fpread all over the firmament, fome of which they foon difcovered 



to have a motion peculiar to 

 .fame rounds which they had compleated before, and to perform 

 their revolutions in different and ftated periods of time, while the 

 cell preferved invariably the fame diftance from one another. 



The fky in this country is commonly clear and ferene, and on a 

 few days only in the whole year, is covered with clouds ; fo that 

 the natives of the tropical ifles have freq 



themfelves, to defcribe again the 



•pportunit 



of 



tontemplating the heavens, and admiring during night the brilliancy 

 of the flars. After the darknefs of the night is over, they do 



njoy fo long a twilight as we do 



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the fun darts out at 



were in full fplendor from under the horizon, and fhines 



with uncommon brightnefs and power, till he again fets on 

 oppofite part of the horizon. 



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when in a few minutes night fpreads 



her fable hues over all the obje(^s furrounding tlie happy natives 



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