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Every new fiep towards a more 
perfect inveftigation of our globe, 
muft be interefting to its principal 
inhabitant. While with unbounded 
curiofity he traces the courfe, mea- 
fures the diftances, and calculates 
the velocities of the Planets, his 
own habitation is ftill in great 
part unknown to him, and from 
the obftacles, which nature on 
one hand, and moral or politi- 
cal caufes on the other, throw in 
his way, will ever remain fo. A 
compleat map of Jupiter or Venus 
is perhaps more within his reach, 
than a compleat one of his earth. 
To divert human induftry from 
what is really not attainable, is no 
lefs ufeful than to direct its purfuits 
to 
