ay8 jMifcellanea Curiofa. 



Now fure it is,that one great advantage for 

 Eftimating of a thing feen, is, from the va- 

 riety of intermediate Obje&s between the 

 Eye and the thing feen. For then the Ima- 

 gination muft allow room for all thefe 

 things. 



Hence it is that if we fee a thing over two 

 Hills, between which there lies a great Valley 

 unfeen, it will appear much nearer than if 

 we fee the Valley alfo : And it will appear as 

 juft beyond the firft Hill. And if we move 

 forward to the top of the neareft Hill (that 

 fo the Valley may be feen) it will then appear 

 much further than before it did. 



And on this account it is, that the Sun 

 fetting, appears to us as if it were but juft: 

 beyond the utmoft of our vifible Horizon be- 

 caufe all between that and the Sun is not 

 feen. And, upon the fame account, the Hea- 

 ven it felf feems Contiguous to the vifible 

 Horizon. 



Now when the Sun or Moon is near the 

 Horizon, there is a profpeft of Hills, and Val- 

 lies, and Plains and Woods, and Rivers, and 

 variety of Fields, and Inclofures, between 

 it and us : which prefent to our Imagination 

 a great Diftance capable of receiving all 

 thefe. Or, if it fo chance that (in fome Po- 

 rtion) thefe Intermediates are not actually 

 feen : Yet having been accuftomed to fee them, 

 the Memory fnggefts to us a view as large as 

 is the vifible Horizon* 



' But ( when the Sun or Moon is jn a higher 

 Pofition ywe fee nothing between us and them 

 •(unlefs perhaps fpme Clouds) and therefore 

 nothing to prefent to our Imagination fo great 

 & Diftance as the other is, - And 



