GAL 
into nebule and clufters of ars, and the milky way to-be 
that particular clufter m which our fun is placed. bane 
Nebula, we thall enter aa into this theory; at prefen 
t extract, in Dr. Herfchel's own 
Tranfactions of 17 
‘It is very probable, that the great ftratum called the 
milky way, is that i which the fun is placed, though per- 
-haps ngt in the very centre of its thicknefs. We gather this 
from the esse oae of the galixy, which feems to encom- 
pafs the whole vens, as it certainly muft do if the fun 
was in the fame: ion fuppofe a number of ftars arranged 
between two parallel planes, ieee extended every way, 
ance from each other; and calling 
jai projecte a great c 
t of Ae sie of the ftars ; while 
ne oeaee at the fides, — only fcem to be fea aan over 
with oo more or lefs crowded, according the 
ronmber of ftars peas in the 
irele, which will appear lucid 
the 
es Thus in figs 114. Plate XU. Afr ononty an nike S, within 
the ftratum ad, will fee the farsi in 1a b 
or height ed, It] 
ength 
reit of 
ed into the lucid circle A B CD, while thee in the fides m Uy 
aw will be feen oo over the remaining part of the 
‘heavens at M 
the eye were re paced = without the ftratum, 
the a eo rs uae 
it would affumeé a forma of — Ge lefs is of the 
-f{phere, which would be more or lefs contracted to | 
the diftance of the eye; and if this diftance gly 
. increafed, the whole am might at laft be drawn ie. 
into a lucid fpot, ef any fhape, according to the pofition, 
tenet and si of the ftratum. 
« Let us now fuppoie, that a branch or fmaller. ftratum 
fhould run out from th 
Q 
indefinitely SS but fo th 
great ftratu where before the feparation, and not far 
from the place pies the ftrata are ftill united. Then will 
this fecond firatum not be projected into a bright circle, like 
the former, but will be feen as a lucid branch, proceeding 
from the firit, and returning. to it again, at acertain diftance, 
lefs than a ene 
«<'Thus, in the a figure, the oe in the fmall eageedd Po 
will be projected into a bright | arch at P ‘hich, 
after oy feparati on from the circle CBD, nn barrie 
again 
What has been inftanced in parallel plan es, may eafily 
be applied to ftrata irregularly bounced and running in vari- 
ous eee ; for their projections will of confequence vary 
according to the quantities of the variations in the itrata and 
ae diltance of the eye from the fame. 
« And thus any kind of curvatures, as well as various dif- 
fereat degrees of brightnefs, may be projected in the 
tions. From appearances, ca as I obferved before, we 
may infer that the fun’ is moft likely placed in one of the 
ft he fi 
. mentgko lo n the galaxy 1 in this point o 
confeed Gat we can ao longer doubt of its whitith ap- 
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pes arifing. from the mixed luftre of the numberlefs ftare 
that compofe'it. Now fhould we imagine it to be an irregu- 
lar ring of ftars, in the centre nearly of which we muft then 
ta rg the fun to be placed, it will not appeara Ha crane 
or see that the fun, Poe a fixed ftar, ae 
c ofe this imagined ring, jo 
tre af fucha male of celethial | bodies ou any appa- 
rent reafon for this fin ngu lar diftin¢tion ; whereas, on our fup- 
politicn, every ftar in 
nation of its length and height, will be fo placed, as alfo to 
aave its own galaxy; with only fuch variations in the form 
and sane of it as may arife on the particular fituation of 
each 
g 
ae c Cet e brought meridian, it will have tie 
plane of fection eed out by the horizon. e mo 
diftant ftar is fuppofed t bout 500 times — from 
the fun than Sirius. Light would take 20,000 years to tra- 
verfe the whole extent. The interior aa is cue 40 times 
the diftance of Sirius. 
GALBA, Servius Sutpicrus, in Biography, a Rom 
emperor, was conful under Tiberius, A. D. 33. 
au ei, 
ae upon ages the proconfulate of Africa. In this high 
office, he condu€ted himfelf with the greateft re an 
his victories were gratified by a public triumph. He after- 
wards pafled everal years as a private citizen, till he was no- 
n 68 
eee ly owed. 
troubles, and a were found who were perpetually p 
ting againit the power of Galba. unifhed ath great 
feu erity all whom he fufpected as inimical to his cag ae 
-and gave his confidence to perfons of bad chara Gter re= 
tained his love of juitice, but his rigour in various piallances 
was carried to the bounds of cruelty ; ; while in others, ava- 
rice and favour procured impunity to the moft 
Virtue was, however, predominant in his mind; and the es 
“thy 
: when urge Ww deen sae upon the ‘ole 
diery, he faid, ** I have been scene 
to buy them”? a fentence which they never forgot. 
finding himfelf in difficulties pe might probably end in rates 
fatal difafter, refolved to a fucceffor, and his choice 
fell upon Pifo Licinianus, a ee fon of illuftrious birth, and 
of feri&t moral condué ne fenate approved the adoption ; . 
ae Otho, ee laid claim ¢ to the 
gan to excite aconfpiracy againft him 
a revolt ae out, and Otho was jaded Sa eae ie . 
attempted to rally his forces, but it was 
was univer Gils aie. and difpatched bya a menrren of 
wounds, Such was the miferable end of this mperor, who 
was flain in the feven aty y-third year of his age, meee in the fe- 
ii in pha when in a private e flation, in many i 
ifappeared when he afcended the throne; and he 
in . 
who theved him = - the ae bea ale Ee forgot the du- 
ties o 
ny who tees have 
_.been 
ey ae he a crown 1 bad he never worn one. 
Galba 
evy ra = 
The virtues which had fhone fo - 
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