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Between the other four, I find no material Differ- 
ence, only fome are rounder, fome of a more 
oval Form, without any Fix’d Stars in them to caufe 
their Light ; only that in Orion , hath fome Stars 
in it, vifible only with the Telefcope, but by no 
Means fufficient to caufe the Light of the Nebulofe 
there. But by thefe Stars it was, that I firft per- 
ceived the Diftance of the Nebulofe to be greater 
than that of the Fix’d Stars, and put me upon en- 
quiring into the reft of them. Every one of which 
I could very vifibly, and plainly difcern, to be at 
immenfe Diftances beyond the Fix'd Stars near them, 
whether vifible to the naked Eye, or Telefcopick 
only i yea, they feemed to be as far beyond the 
Fix’d Stars, as any of thofe Stars are from the 
Earth. 
And now from this Relation of what I have ob« 
ferved from very good, and frequent Views of the 
Nebulofe, I conclude them certainly not to be Lucid 
Bodies , that fend their Light to us, as the Sun and 
Moon. Neither are they the combined Light of 
Clufters of Stars, like that of the Milky-Way : 
But I take them to be vaf Area, or Regions of 
Light, infallibly beyond the Fix’d Stars, and devoid 
of them. I fay Regions, meaning Spaces of a vaft 
Extent, large enough to appear of fuch a Size as they 
do to us, at fo great a Diftance as they are from 
us. 
And fince thofe Spaces are devoid of Stars, and even 
that in Orion itfelf, hath its Stars bearing a very fm$ 11 
Proportion to its Nebulofe, and they are vifibly not the 
Caufe of it, I leave it to the great Sagacity and Pe- 
netration of this Illuftrious Society, to judge whe- 
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