Cm) 
into tha Land , and have a bred?h Capable to be obferved. 
There are t luxes in certain places,thai reach into large Goun- 
tries, enough to make there Took apparent change^ in fome 
of oar Seas there float fcmetimes (uch -bulky cnafles of Ice 5 
that are far grea er,thanthe Objects, which we are allured 9 
we can fee in the Moon, Again, we cut down wh» le For reft s, 
and drain Marifhes, of an extent largv enough to cauie a 
notable alteration: And me?. tave made fuch ivork , as 
have produced Changes great enough to be perceived. In 
nr»any places alfo are Vulcans % tha? fee m big enough to be 
di 4 i guifh t , efpeciallyin the fbadow i And when Fire 
lights upon Forrefts of great extent, or upon Towns, it 
can hardly be doubted, bur rhefe Luminous ObjeCfs would 
appear either in an Ecclipfe of the Earth, or when fuch parts 
of the Earth are not illuminated by the Sun, But yet, I know 
no man, who hath oblervfcd fuch things inth e Moon ; and 
one may be rationally aflured that no cleans are there, or 
or that none of them burn at this time. This it is Cjo he 
goes on ) which all Curious men , that have good Telfcopes^ 
ought well to attend } and I doubt not, but, if we had a ve* 
ry particular Map of the Moon, as I had defigned to make one 
with a Topography , as it were , of all rhe considerable places 
th rein, h o We or our Fofferity would find fome changes 
id H r • And d rhe JTJ >ppr of the Asoon of Efeve Itus^ Dsv/n/ y^tid 
Riccwh, areex,i.<ft,? can f?y,rhat I ha vt feen there fome places 
confidetable enough, where thty put parts that are clear 3 
whereas / there fee dark on s. ’Tls true that if there be Seal 
in the Moon , it can hardly fall our orherwTe , than it d orh 
upon our Ear h s where Alluvium s are made in fome places 
and the Sea gains upon the Land in others. / fay , if thofe 
Spots we fee in the Mom 3 are Seas , as moft befieve them to 
b. , whereas I have many reafons , that make me doubt , 
whether they be fo y of which I (hall fpeak el fe where. And 
I have fomerimes thought, whether it n ight nor be, that all 
the Sea?, of rhe Moon , if there muff be Seas , were on the 
fide of he other tiemifpbere 9 and that for this caufe it might 
be that the Moon turns not upon its axis 9 as our Earth, 
& 2 wherein 
