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Foot and Right Shoulder of Orion % Sirius , Proqofl , and Fo - 
walhaut; and there are three more that never rife in our 
Horizon, viz . Canopus, Acharnar , and the Foot of the 
Centaur. But that they exceed the number Thirteen, 
may eafily be accounted for from the different magni- 
tudes that may be in the Stars themfelves; and perhaps 
fome of them may be much nearer to one another, than 
they are to us; this excefs of Number being found fing- 
ly in the Signs of Gemini and Cancer . And indeed within 
45 degrees of Longitude, or one 8th of the whole, there 
are no lefs than five of thefe fixteen to be feen. If there- 
fore the Number of them be fuppofed Thirteen , omitting 
Niceties in a Matter of fuch Irregularity, at twice the 
diftance from the Sun there maybe placed four times as 
many, or yx ; which, with the fame allowance, would 
nearly reprefent the number of the Stars we find to be of 
the id magnitude: fo 9 x 13. or F17, for thofe at three 
times the diftance : and at ten times the diftance 100 x 1 3 
or 1300 Stars ; which diffance may perhaps diminifh 
the light of any of the Stars of the Hrft magnitude to 
that of the fixth, it being but the hundredth part of 
what, at their prefent diftance, they appear with. But 
if, fmee we have room enough for it, we (hould fuppofe 
the Sphere continued to 10 times thelaft, or 100 times 
the firft diftance, the number of Stars would be 1 30 000, 
and they would appear but with the 10 oooth part of 
the Light of a firft magnitude Star, as we now fee ic. 
This is fo fmall a puile of Light, that it may well be 
queftioned, whether the Eye, aftifted with any artificial 
help, can be made fenfible thereof. But too times the 
diftance of a Star we fee, is ftill Finite: from whence I 
leave thofe that pleafe to conftder it attentively, to draw 
the Conclufion. 
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