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reality two very contiguous Stars environed with a very 
large tranfparenc bright Spot, through which they appear 
with feveral others. Thefe are curioufly defcribed by 
Hugenius in his Syflema Saturn] am pag. 8. who there calls 
this brightnefs, Portentum, cut certe fimile aliud nufquam 
apud reliquas Fixas potuit animadvert ere : affirming that he 
found it by chance in the Year 16^6. The Middle of 
this is at prefentin n 19 0 . co, with South Lat. z 8°~. 
About the Year 1661 another of this fort was difeo- 
vered (if I miftake not.) by Bullialdus, in Cingulo Androme- 
da. This is neither in Tycho nor Bayer, having been 
omitted, as are many others becaufe of its fmallneis .* But 
it is inferted into theCatalogue of F/ve/iu',w ho has impro* 
perly call’d it Nebulofa inftead of Nebula ; it has no fign of a 
Star in it, but appears like a pale Cloud, and feems to emit 
a radiant Beam into the North Eaft, as that in Orion does 
into the South Eaft. It precedes in Right Afcenfion the 
Northern in the Girdle or v Bayero, about a Degree and 
three Quarters, and has Longitude at this time v . 2.4 0 . 
00 with Lat North $3°j-. 
The Third is near the Ecliptick between the Head and 
Boev of Sagittary , not far from the Point of the Winter 
Solftice, This it feems was found in the Year 1665 by 
a German Gentleman M. J. Abraham Ihle , . whilffc he atten- 
ded the Motion cf Saturn then near his aphelion. This is 
Email but very luminous and emits a Ray like the former. 
Its Place at this time is 4°^ with about half a Degree 
South Lat. 
A fourth was found by Vi.Edm. Halley in the Year 1 677, 
when he was making the Catalogue of the Southern Stars. 
It is in the Centaur, that which Ptolemy calls d S' vcoth 
which He names in dorfo Equino Nebula and is 
Bayers co ; It is in appearance between the fourth and fifth 
Magnitude, and emits but a fmali Light for its Breadth, 
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