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PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRA N S A CTIONS 
I. Account of the "Difcovery of a Sixth and Seventh Satellite oj 
the Planet Saturn', with Remarks on the'Confiruchon of its 
Ring, its Atmofphere , its Rotation on an Axis, and itsfpheroidi- 
ccd Figure . By William Herfchel, LL.D. F. R~ S. 
Read November 1 2, 1789. 
I N a {hort Poftfcript, added to my laft Paper on Nebulae, I 
announced the difcovery of a fixth fatellite of Saturn, 
and mentioned, that I intended to communicate the particulars 
of its orbit and fituation to the Members of the Royal Society, 
at their next meeting. I have now the honour to prefent them, 
at the fame time, with an account of two fatelhtes inftead of 
one; and have called them the fixth znifeventh, though their 
Vol, LXXX. B , fituation 
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