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i56 A TOUR THROUGH
poses.—How much will posterity be asto-
nished at our ignorance, and wonder that
this system mould have existed for so many
thousand years, before we were in the least
acquainted with one half of it, or had
even invented names to distinguish its dif-
ferent members !
I have no doubt, that in future ages,
the number of the comets, the form of
their orbits, and time os their revolutions,
will be as clearly demonslrated as that
of the planets. It is our countryman,
Dr. Halley, who has begun this great
work, which may be considered just now
as in its earliest infancy.— Thele bodies,
too, with thick atmospheres, but without
tails, will likewise have their proper places
ascertained, and will no longer be con-
founded with bodies to which they bear
AO resemblance or connexion.
Comets
poses.—How much will posterity be asto-
nished at our ignorance, and wonder that
this system mould have existed for so many
thousand years, before we were in the least
acquainted with one half of it, or had
even invented names to distinguish its dif-
ferent members !
I have no doubt, that in future ages,
the number of the comets, the form of
their orbits, and time os their revolutions,
will be as clearly demonslrated as that
of the planets. It is our countryman,
Dr. Halley, who has begun this great
work, which may be considered just now
as in its earliest infancy.— Thele bodies,
too, with thick atmospheres, but without
tails, will likewise have their proper places
ascertained, and will no longer be con-
founded with bodies to which they bear
AO resemblance or connexion.
Comets