spar, of one or two inches in diameter, 
with which it abounded, indicate, that 
smaller planets exist between the spheres 
of larger ones. 
Since last January, my mind has been 
almost entirely devoted to the study of 
nature’s laws, both abroad and at my read¬ 
ing desk :—and I have found full fifty 
strong additional facts, in proof of my new 
principles. I will state the base of a num¬ 
ber, from whence the studious may trace 
their merits, (as I have lately done) in 
books that treat of them. If the learned 
admit my philosophy without the publica¬ 
tion of a formal treatise, I shall be the 
more gratified. For the present I offer 
the following brief facts as proof. 
Proof 1. 1 he alternate dark and light 
circles seen round 
the poles of Mars, 
as if several concen¬ 
tric spheres open at 
their poles, existed 
one within another. 
SeeFerguson’splates 
of Mars. 
2nd. Saturn’s ring or rings, which have 
the appearance of being one or more of his 
outermost spheres, contracted N. and S. 
and greatly open at their poles, owing per¬ 
haps to great rarity and a rapid rotation. 
3d. One of the cusps or horns of Ve¬ 
nus, sometimes running 
15 degrees into her dark 
hemisphere, being nar¬ 
row, bends inwards like 
a hook before it termin¬ 
ates, as if this narrow 
lighted hook like part, 
wound round the rim of 
an annular cavity, that 
might be a hollow pole; 
Sc at other periods, either 
this or the other cusp or 
horn, terminates bluntly, 
leaving a dark space of 
several degrees,and again 
showing a tip, or spot of 
light, as if a hole or void 
space had interrupted the 
horn near the point—and 
as if the insulated spot ot 
light, was short of the end 
