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' Ahercin the Lands and Seas are ^ as it were, ballanced;That 
thence alfo may proceed the non-appearance of any Clouds 
raifed there , or of any Vapors confideraWe enough to be 
fcen 5 as there are raifed upon this Earth 5 and that this ab- 
fence of Vapors is perhaps the caufcj that no Cref tfchis 
there j as it feems there is none , my felfe at leaft not ha- 
ving hitherto been able to difcerne any mark thereof: Fr>r 5 
me thinks, it i^ not to be doubted, but^hat the reputed Ci- 
tizens of the Me0f$ might fee our Crepufcle^ Gnce we fee^ that 
the lame is without comparifon ftronger, than the Ught af- 
forded us by thcildf<?£?;2 5 even whenfheis/»//$ for, a little 
after Sun fet, when we receive no more the/r/? Light of the 
Suff 5 the sky is far clearer , than it is in the faireft night of 
the frll Moen^ Mean while , Gnce we fee in the AIooH^when 
Ihe is increaCng or decreafing , the Lights fhe receives from 
the Earth 5 we cannot doubt , but that the People of the 
Moon (bould likcwife fee in the Earth ih2Lt Light , where- 
with the J^&on iWxxcmmtes it ^ with perhaps the diJFerencc^ 
there is betwixt their bigtiefs. Much rather therefore (hould 
they fee the Light of the Crephfcle y being , as we have faid , 
incomparably greater * In the mean time we fee not any 
faint Light beyond the of the Light, which is every 
where almoft equaly ftrong , and we there diftinguifli no- 
thing at all , not fo much that cleereft part 5 which is called 
Ariiidrchus^QX Vorphyrites , as I hare often trycd h although 
one may there fee the Light, which the Earth fends thither, 
which i^fometimes fo ftrong , that in the Moon's Atcxtdiit I 
have oftmdifimdiy (een rf/i the parts of the Moon^thsX were 
not entightned by the Sun together with the difference of the 
clear parts , and the Spots , fo far as to be able to difcern 
them all. The shaddovos alfb of all the Cavities of the Moon 
feem to be ftrong;er , than they would be, if there were a 
Secondlj^t. For, although a far off, th^ fhaddows of our 
Bodies, environed with Light, fccm to Us almoft dark 5 
yet they doe not fo appear fo much , asthe Shaddorwsof the 
Moon doc J and ihofc that are upon iht Bdgs of the seBion , 
fhould 
