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magnified for a shrub seemed as big as a tree,
and a ssock os achbobbas (birds the ssze of a
Capon) might be mistaken for a caravan os
camels. £c This,” says he, £s seems to advance
“ about a quarter of a mile before us.”
You will readily perceive, Ladies and Gen-
tlemen, that in order to render this observa-
tion sensible and evident, I have seledted in-
stances more remarkable than our temperate
climate affords; but suffer me also to add,
that we are not without effects arising from this
cause, which are more conssderable in sum-
mer than in winter, and perhaps at morning
than at evening twilight.
To apply this to the subjeft of our immedi-
ate attention, I think I may venture to say, not
only that we see remoter objefts than geometri-
cally we ought to see, but also, that objects
situated at some distance from us, appear larger
and more distinft than their geometrical situa-
tions would indicate.
Moreover, I cannot help thinking, that, in
strudiures of very great extent, this principle
has its effest, and that the remoter parts of such
strubtures are not always so greatly diminished
as we see them represented; for, if they were,
such ranges of building as the palace of Perse-
polis, or as some of the Italian aquedudts, or
2 even
magnified for a shrub seemed as big as a tree,
and a ssock os achbobbas (birds the ssze of a
Capon) might be mistaken for a caravan os
camels. £c This,” says he, £s seems to advance
“ about a quarter of a mile before us.”
You will readily perceive, Ladies and Gen-
tlemen, that in order to render this observa-
tion sensible and evident, I have seledted in-
stances more remarkable than our temperate
climate affords; but suffer me also to add,
that we are not without effects arising from this
cause, which are more conssderable in sum-
mer than in winter, and perhaps at morning
than at evening twilight.
To apply this to the subjeft of our immedi-
ate attention, I think I may venture to say, not
only that we see remoter objefts than geometri-
cally we ought to see, but also, that objects
situated at some distance from us, appear larger
and more distinft than their geometrical situa-
tions would indicate.
Moreover, I cannot help thinking, that, in
strudiures of very great extent, this principle
has its effest, and that the remoter parts of such
strubtures are not always so greatly diminished
as we see them represented; for, if they were,
such ranges of building as the palace of Perse-
polis, or as some of the Italian aquedudts, or
2 even