Conf ruction of the Heavens, 
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Sefflion of our fidereal fyfern. 
By taking out of this table the vifual rays which anfwer to 
the gages, and applying lines proportional to them around a 
point, according to their refpeCtive right afcen lions and north 
polar dibances, we may delineate a folid by means of the ends 
of thefe lines, which will give us fo many points in its fur- 
face ; I (ball, however, content myfelf at prefen t with a fee- 
tion only. I have taken one which pafles through the poles of 
our fyflem, and is at reCtangles to the conjunction of the 
branches which I have called its length. The name of poles 
feemed to me not improperly applied to thofe points which are 
90 degrees dibant from a circle palfuig along the milky way, 
and the north pole is here affumed to be lituated in R.A. 186 0 
and P.D. 58°. The feCtion reprefented in fig. 4. is one which 
makes an angle of 35 degrees with our equator* eroding it in 
124I and 304! degrees. A celebial globe, adjubed to the lati- 
tude of 55 0 north, and having <r Ceti near the meridian, will 
have the plane of this feCtion pointed out by the horizon, and 
the gages which have been ufed in this delineation are thofe 
which in table I. are marked by afterilks. When the vifual 
rays anfwering to them are taken out of the fecond table, they 
mud: be projected on the plane of the horizon of the latitude 
which has been pointed out ; and this may be done accurately 
enough for the prefent purpofe by a globe adjuded as above di- 
rected; for as gages, exaCtly in the plane of the feCtion, were 
often wanting, I have ufed many at fome frnall didance above 
and below the fame, for the fake of obtaining more delineating 
points; and in the figure the bars at the borders which are 
larger than, the red are thofe pointed out by the gages. The 
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