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I. An Account of federal Nebulae or lucid Spots 
like Clouds , lately di (cohered among the Fixt Stars 
hy help of the Telefcope. 
I N our iaft we gave a Ihort Account of the fcveral New- 
Stars that have appeared in the Heavens, within the 
laft 150 Years, fome of which afford very furprizing 
Phenomena. But not lefs wonderful are certain luminous 
Spots or Patches, which difcover themfelves only by the 
Telefcope, and appear to the naked Eye like (mail Fixt 
Stars; but in reality are nothing elfe but the Light coming 
from an extraordinary great Space in the Ether ; through 
which a lucid Medium is diffufed, that fliines with its own 
proper Luftre- This feems fully to reconcile that Diffi- 
culty which fome have moved aeainft the Defcription 
Moles gives of the Creation, ailedging that Light could 
not be created without the Sun. But in the following 
Inftances the contrary is manifeft ; for fome of thefe 
bright Spots difcover no fign of a Star in the middle of 
them ; and the irregular Form of thofe that have, (hews 
them not to proceed from the Illumination of a Central 
Body. Thefe are, as the aforefaid New Stars, Six in 
Number, all which we willdefcribe in the order of time, 
as they were difcovered ; giving their Places in the Sphere 
of Fixt Stars, to enable the Curious, who are furnilhed with 
good TeleicopeSjto take the Satisfaction of contemplating 
them. 
The firft and moft confiderable is that in the Middle 
of Orion s Sword, marked with 0 by Bayer in his Uranorn- 
tria, as a fingle StaTof the third Magnitude ; and is fo ac- 
counted by Ftokmy, Tycho Brahe and Hevelius\ but is in 
,~/s ; ,r , - reality 
