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for them to be difcovcred : And that this is not barely 
a Conjedure, take the following Inftancc. 
On Mcnddjy June lo in the Evening, the Sky being 
very ferene and calm, I was dcfirous to take a View of 
the Disk of Mates ( then very near the Earth, and ap- 
pearing very glorious ,) to fee if I could diftinguifli in 
my 24 Foot Telefcope, the Spots faid to be (een on him. 
Direding my Tube for that purpofe, I accidentally fell 
trpon a fmall whitilh Appearance near the Planet, refem- 
bling in all refpeds fuch a Nebula as 1 lately deferibed 
in Philof. Tranja^. N° 347. but fmaller. It leemed to 
emit from its upper part a very lliort kind of Radia- 
tion difeded towards the Eaft, but Northerly withal '; 
^jj^hich, confidering its Situation, was nearly towards the 
Point oppofite to the Sun. The great Light of the 
Moon, then very near it and alfo near the Full, hin- 
der’d this Phenomenon {torn being more diflindly feen ; 
bue its Place in the Heavens was fufficiently afeertained 
frbm the Neighbourhood of Mars, from whom it was 
but about half a Degree diftant towards the SouthwelV, 
the difference of* Latitude being fomewhat more than 
tbat bf Longitude and Mars being at that time in t 
30'^ with 5°. 48^ South Latitude, I concluded the 
place thereof in .17®. 12' with 4°; Lat, South, 
or thereabouts ; the which may yet be more fecurely de- 
termined by help of two fmall fixt Stars I found near it, 
the more northerly of which I judged to have the“fame 
Latitude with it, and ito follow it at about the Diflance 
'of>ft5C'Mihttires;' tKo^other Star was ilbouc- four Minutes 
more foutlierly chan. rhe former, and about one Minute 
ili-:conrequence rhereof ; the Angle at the Northern Star 
whsta httld ohtufe,, as of about lOp Degrees, and thie 
f)iftanpe pf'-okr Nebulaitxom iX 'fefquiaber to tliO Diff-anefe 
ibf?the)cwoi Stark; or rather a little more. “ The Re^er^id 
Mt, Alban Thomas, and my- ‘ 4 If, 
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