[si 
motus locales corporum, ac rerum materiarumqu© 
“ ex ipfo foie ejedarum evaporatarumque, pene 
v continenter, ad inftar iiubium acmeteororum fub- 
44 lunarium ex terra promanantium,peragi videmus; 
“ nonne clare ex eo evincitur, folem habere fuam 
“ afrnofphasram, in eaque dari, pro virtutis fuse 
“indole, generationes et corruptiones rebus - fublu- 
44 naribus baud diffimiles rariorefque ?- imo, non- 
“ nunquam longe frequentiores, et infigniores ac- ' 
“ cidere (fi praslertini obfervationes macularum a 
44 Scheinero nobifque habitas exade examinaveris) 
44 quam prope hanc terrain unquarn poffint?” And 
again, when fpeaking of the fun’s body: “Atque 
44 ita hie liquor igneus (ut fic loqui liceat) eft quaff 
14 vaftiftimum luminum pelagus et mare dgneum, 
44 quod fuos habet abyft'us, occultos meatus, vora- 
44 gines atque vortices ; quod, ad inftar marts noifri, 
44 perpetuis fluduum quibui'dam voluminibus agi- 
44 tat ur, et fuo modo evaporationes -et exhalationes 
44 jugiter evomit atque exhalat-: eoque magis aut 
44 minus, quo^magis vel minus- materia ifta in vif- 
44 ceribus ejus, atque intimis receftibusp igneum 
44 llud pelagus, illiufque fludus commoventur ac 
“ concitantur.” 
But all that we here find, however plaulible and 
ingenious, can be regarded only as conjedure. It does 
not appear, rhat any who have followed hevelius 
have met with more fuccefs. Their obferva- 
tions feem not to differ from his in any remarkable 
circumftance ; nor do we find, that their inferences 
from them, although fometimes different* have any 
better pretenfions to the truth. The many ftrange 
and variable circumftanceS'of the fpots, which were 
difeo 
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