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relating to the sidereal part of the Heavens. 
in their appearance as they are gradually more remote. It 
has already been shewn in the 8th article, that in passing from 
faint nebulosity to the suspected sidereal condition, we cannot 
avoid meeting with ambiguous objects, to which I must now 
add, that the same critical situation will again occur, when from 
the distinctly sidereal appearance we endeavour to penetrate 
gradually farther into space. In consequence of this remark, 
it seems probable that among the numerous globular nebulse 
which have been given in my last paper, many beautiful clusters 
of stars may lie concealed. To this we may add, that several 
of the great number of objects which have been given as stellar 
nebulae, and are probably at a still greater distance from us, 
may be the last glimpses we can have of such clusters of stars 
as the 77th of the Connoissance des Temps, which will nearly 
put on the stellar appearance when it is viewed in a very good 
common telescope. 
This ambiguity, however, being the necessary consequence 
of the faintness or distance of objects, when seen through 
telescopes that are not sufficiently powerful to shew them as 
they are, will not affect any of the arguments that have been 
used to establish the existence of a clustering power, the effects 
of which have gradually been traced from the first indication 
of clustering stars, through irregular as well as through 
more artificially arranged clusters, up to the beautiful globular 
form. 
The extended view^s I have taken, in this and my former 
papers, of the various parts that enter into the construction of 
the heavens, have prepared the way for a final investigation 
of the universal arrangement of all these celestial bodies in 
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MDCCCXIV. 
