128 Dr. Hersci-iel’s Account of 
fituation with refpedt to the planet, and its parallel of decli- 
nation. 
The long expedted evening came on, and, notwithftanding 
the moft unfavourable appearance of dark weather, it cleared 
up at laft. And the heavens now difplayed the original of my 
drawing, by (hewing, in the (ituation I had delineated them, 
Dhe Georgian Planet attended by two Satellites . 
I confefs that this fcene appeared to me with additional 
beauty, as the little fecondary planets feemed to give a dignity 
to the primary one, which raifes it into a more confpicuous 
lituation among the great bodies of our folar (yftem. 
For upwards of five hours I (aw them go on together, each 
purfuing its own track ; and I left them (ituated, about two 
o’clock in the morning on February the nth, as they are 
reprefented in the figure, Tab. VII. The letters S, N, 
P, F, denote the fouth, north, preceding, and following parts 
of the heaven Sj as they are feen, by the front-view , in my tele- 
fcope. The fouth preceding fatellite is the fecond, or that 
whofe motion was fi rft afcertained ; the other is that which 
moves in a fmaller orbit, or what I have called the firfi: fatel- 
lite ; and the direction of their motion is according to the order 
P, S, F, N, of the letters. 
I have not feen them long enough to afiign their periodical 
times with great accuracy; but fuppofe that the firfi; performs 
a fynodical revolution in about eight days and three-quarters, 
- and the fecond in nearly thirteen days and an half. 
Their orbits make a confiderable angle with the ecliptic ; but 
to afiign the real quantity of this inclination, with many 
other particulars, will require a great deal of attention, and 
much contrivance : for, as eftimations by the eye cannot but be 
extremely fallacious, I do not expedt to give a good account of 
their 
