324 Sir William Herschel’s observations and experiments 
Sirius, Arcturus, Capella, &c. were removed into the Profun- 
dity of space which I have mentioned, they would then appear 
like the stars I saw with the gaging power of the finder. I 
then changed this power from 2 to 3, and saw more stars 
than before ; and changing it again from 3 to 4, a still greater 
number of them became visible. The situation of these addi- 
tional stars was consequently between the 24th, 36th, and 
48th order of distances. 
With the gaging power 5 of the night glass I saw a great 
number of stars ; with 6 , more stars and whitishness became 
visible ; with 7, more stars with resolvable whitishness were 
seen; and with 8, still more. The stars that gradually made 
their appearance, therefore, were probably scattered over the 
space between the 48th and 96th order of distances. 
In the 7 feet reflector, with the gaging powers 9 and 10, 
I saw a great number of stars; with 11 and 12, a greater 
number of stars and resolvable whitishness were seen ; with 
13 and 14, the number of visible stars was increased, and was 
so again with 15 ; with 16 and 17 in addition to the visible 
stars, there were many too faint to be distinctly perceived. 
These gages therefore extend the space over which the addi- 
tional stars were scattered from the 96th to the 204th order of 
distances. 
With a 10 feet reflector, reduced to a gaging power of 18, 
I saw a great number of stars : they were of very different 
magnitudes, and many w r hitish appearances were so faint that 
their consisting of stars remained doubtful. The power 19, 
which next I used, verified the reality of several suspected 
stars, and increased the lustre of the former ones. With 20, 
22, and 25, the same progressive verifications of suspected 
