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It is plain, that the Light of the Fixed Stars, as well as that of the Planets, is made to depend upon the Light of the Sun; because the Holy Scripture never makes any distinction between them, and especially in Revel.VIII.12. where we read, [[underline]] And the four Angles sounded, and the third part of the Sun was smitten, and the third part of the Moon, and the third part of the Stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the Day shone not for a third part of it, and the Night likewise. [[/underline]] Ozan^[[m's]] Course of Math.^s Vol. 5 part.I.p.38 Add hereunto Jerem.XXXI.35.Job.IX.7 The Zodiacal light is a brightness like that of the Milky way, and sometimes even brighter, extending almost along the zodiac, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, & sometimes 100 degrees & more, from the place of the Sun on both sides. Its points and a great part of its luminous arch, when it is not enveloped, or mixed with our twilight, appear to have an annual and diurnal motion about the earth, like, that which is vulgarly attributed to the sun. - The properest time for observing it is in the evening, towards the end of winter and the beginning of Spring; and in the morning towards the end of Summer and the beginning of autumn. This difference is in effect of the different position of the ecliptic on the horizon, which makes the point of this light fall sometimes higher and sometimes lower. Its origin is pretended to belong to the Sun, it therefore has received the name of Solar Atmosphere, though it must not be confounded with that which immediately surrounds it, in the form of a very flat spheroid, of which the greater diameter is often 5, or between 8&9 times greater than that which is imagined from one pole to another. The extent of this exterior atmosphere is at different times so unequal, that its upper point is sometimes far short of the orbit of the earth, and sometimes runs far beyond it. - Some Philosophers imagine this light to be a spheroidal assemblage of small planets, as the Milky-way is nothing more than an infinite number of fixed stars, so small as not to be perceptable; they even believe that those small planets turn about the sun the same way as the great. Universal Mag^e for Apr. 1764.p.180&181. The difference between rain and dew is this, the former is a clear and whitish water; whereas the latter is commonly clouded and a little yellow. The water of pure-rain, being distilled, has neither taste nor smell; but distilled dew has both; a certain sign, that there are oleaginous parts extremely subtilised, confounded with dew. - Dew differs ^[[greatly]] [[strikethough]] generally [[/strikethrough]] according to the place where it is found. Universal Mag. for May. 1764.p.244. A PROPORTIONAL RUSE of finding at any time the Moon's ANOMALY; her Motions at Appointiment being first for the same time given according to celestial Observation; has been invented by SAMUEL SCARLYN, M.B. and was communicated on the 12.th day of last September to the Commissioners appointed by Act of Parliament for the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea, for the Examination. Cambridge Chronicle for Decem^r 28th. 1765.