376 Dr. Herschel’s Account of the Changes that have happened 
remarkable a star as e should have a companion, seems almost 
to amount to a proof that this very companion is, as it appears 
to be, a connected star. The onus probandi , therefore, ought in 
justice to fall to the share of those who would deny the truth of 
what we may call a fact ; and I believe the utmost they could 
do, would be to prove that we may be deceived ; but they cannot 
show that this star has no connection with e Bootis. 
This argument will be much supported, when we consider that 
many of the double stars in the milky-way are probably such 
as have one of the scattered stars, nearly in the same line, at a 
great distance behind them. In this case, the two stars of the 
double star have no connection with each other ; and the great 
number of them in the milky-way, is itself an indication of this 
effect of the scattered multitude of small stars. In the single 
constellation of Orion, for i-nstance, we have no less than 43, 
pointed out by my catalogues ; ten of which are of the first class, 
and yet have undergone no change of distance or position since 
I first perceived them. But, with apparently insulated stars, such 
as s Bootis, the case is just the reverse. 
If, in consequence of our former arguments, and the present 
remarks, we place e Bootis among the stars which hold a smaller 
one in combination, we may delineate its orbit as in Plate VIII. 
Fig. 3* 
Let PNFS represent a circle, projected into the elliptical 
orbit axx'bcd. e is the large star; and xx f are the first and last 
measured north preceding situations of the small one, as given 
in the following Table. 
