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“ I have often obferved thefe Spots $ yet from all 
« my Obfervations cannot find one Argument to prove 
“ them other than fading Bodies. But that they are 
M no Stars, out unconftant (in regard of their Genera- 
“ tion^) and irregular Excrefcences arifing out of, or 
“ proceeding from the Suns Body, many things feem to 
“ me to make it more than probable. 
“ For firft, for rheir Form $ they are feldom round, 
“ but of irregular Shapes, and, as 1 have often feen, one 
u fide, or end of the ip at more thin than the red, like 
“ to a certain mi fly darknefs, and by degrees thicker, 
“ groifer, and darker, nearer to the main body of the 
"■ Spot 5- juft as the Smoak of fome pitchy Fire, which- 
“ is in one part very grofs, and in another more rare 
“ and thin, turning at hft into meer Air : Or like a: 
“ Cloud, Fog, or Mift, mure thick, dark, and grofs in 
“ the midft 5 and more thin, fluid, penetrable, and- tran- 
sparent towards the fides $ which I fuppofe is not 
‘‘ compatible with any of the Stars. 
“ Secondly, for their Colour; The lighrtefs thereof 
c - differencetn them from Stars, or Planets they being 
“ never of fuch abfolute darknefs as l obferved Ventf? 
“ the 24th of Nove'wb r laft : Tho’ I have feen fpots 
“ fometimes little lefs than fbe, yet always of: a far 
“ paler and whiter Colour, looking (at leaft in fome 
“ Parts) like fome thin diflipated fubflance. 
“ Thirdly, for the manner of their appearance. I 
“ have feen many Spots, which in the middle of the 
“ Sun appear of a round body, but coming towards the 
*• fide of the Sun, appear long. Which (if you rightly * 
“ confider itj is a demonfcrative Argument that they are • 
“ not Globes, as all the Planets and Stars are; For 
“ Giobes always appear of one form (-round) in every 
“ Pofition 5 but Exhalations, or fuch like fluid Sub- 
4 ‘ flances, extended to a broad flat form, like our Clouds, 
which being over our Heads, and fo in theiriifii, 
breadth,. 
