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on the Nature of the Sun. 
they are contained in a double row, nearly parallel to the sun's 
equatorial motion ; the largest of them has now a shallow of a 
considerable size, on its north following side. 
The number of small openings near each other, indicates a 
perpendicular ascent of the empyreal gas that breaks through 
the atmospheric clouds ; and their want of shallows shews the 
same thing, 
March 15. The set of openings which began to enter on the 
8th, consists now of 29. There are 3 other small openings in 
different parts of the sun. 
March 16. There is an opening lately entered. The cluster 
of yesterday has undergone considerable changes. 
March 18. The opening of the lbth consists now of 8 diffe- 
rent ones ; none of them have any shallows. 
The whole space about the cluster of the 8th, is surrounded 
with luminous ridges in many directions. 
The corrugations all over the sun are beautiful, and coarse ; 
resembling small nodules joined together like irregular honey- 
comb. 
In a multitude of places, the corrugations are quite detached, 
like luminous wisps, or slender tufts, standing upright. 
March 19. Another set of ridges has entered the disk ; it 
contains one opening. 
The corrugations are rich, and may be called luminous wisps, 
being much disjoined, except at their bottom ; they are so rich, 
that they partake of the yellowish colour of the ridges. 
The northern ridges extend a good way into the disk, like a 
zone. 
March 21. There are five sets, containing 29 openings, none 
of which have any shallows. 
