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Difhnce of Saturn , and even farther; and confc- 
quently that no living Creature could fubHit there. 
Nay there mud have been a Time, when the Planets 
were nearer to fome fixt Stars than to the Sun; and 
in this Cafe they could never come into the Solar 
Syftcm. This then is a Proof, purely phyfical, that 
the World, in its prefent State, mull have had a Be- 
ginning, and muff have an End. In order to im- 
prove this Notion, and to find with Exactitude, how 
much the Years become fhorter in each Century ; I 
am in Hopes that a great Number of older Obfer- 
vations will afford me the necelfary Succours. 
I beg you will prefent my Refpectsto the Royal 
Society 5 and am, 
Tours, &c. L. Euler. 
IV. Part of a Tetter from Mr. Benj Cooke, 
j P. R . S. to Mr. Peter Collinfon, 'F. R. S. 
concerning the Ejfe&s of the Mixture of 
the Farina of Apple-Trees; and of the 
Mayze or Indian Corn : And of a Child 
born with the Jaundice upon it , received 
from its Father ; and of the Mother take - 
ing the fame Diflemper from her Hufba?id y 
the next Time of being with Child. 
Read Nov. 2. I TTHEN the Farina of one Apple 
‘.49- VV impregnates another's Bloflom of 
differing Species, we fee the Change in * the Fruit i 
but whether any lading Impreffion is left on the 
Bough. 
* See thefe Tranladions No. 490. p. 622. 
