/ ■ ( S^t&i ) 
10 fctk fdf the New Plaoct. In the firfl: obfervatio&s^^ade 
Dece^h, i^&Qd 17, we perceived an Occidental Srafj r€niotf|f^j 
from Saturo^ which in both thefe obfervations had a Southern ^ ' 
latitode in refpeft to the line of his wings 5 but in the firft it 
was further diftant from Saturn than io the fccond : So that^ if 
this vvas the fame Star^ as Ifappofed it to be, not having been 
zhUtomdkeit out ^ by comparing it with Fixed ones 5 there 
being at that time none within the Aperture of the Telefcope§ 
it moved towards Saturn on the Eaft^ and confcquenily (fup- 
pofingit tobe his Satellir) it was in the fuperior part tf .his 
Circle^ 
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A Difiover J of another Nem Planet, 
E could not fee Saturn agaii^ but the 93th of December^ y^^; 
and then in the prefence oiMt&.t\xx^HHgens^Picard^li'^k\h 
Marhtte, Rower^&nd othcrsoftheR. Acade^ji of the Sciences.^ 
we found a fmall Scar ^^eftward* of Saturn, between him and 
his Ordinary Satellif^ . vvhich was. on the Weft alio, almoft at a 
double diftance. Andatthat time wehadnoother reafonto 
fuppofe it to be different from the former^ but that it had no . 
latitude at all in refpeft of the Line ofSaturo's wings. 
The -weather did not foffer us to fee Saturn again till the 
30th of December ^ and then we faw a little Scarj on the Eaft 
of him, without any latitude between hicn and his Ordinary 
Satellitj which had palTed alfo to the Eaft of hitn* This ob. 
fervatioDj compared wi h the precedent^ kept us yet in fuf 
pcnfe, becaufe we know not, whether thiSj which feem'd to us 
the fame with that of the foregoing obfervation^ had pafled 
from one fide of Saturn to the other^by one only motion flower 
than that of the ordinary Satellita and confcquently by a little 
arch of a greater Circle ; whether^ during this interval of 
lime, it had made one or iiiore turns by a kfler Circle § Ivhich 
was much more accombdable to the pofition, in which it had 
appeared without Latitude in both obfcrvatioos \ as ordinari- 
Jy it befalls the SatellitSj when they are in their grcatefl dir 
greffions. ^ , 
But we being not to rely upon thftftt wo O&fcrvatlons alone,' 
