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COMPREHENSIVE VIEW

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SOLAR SYSTEM.

STRONOMY, which is deser-vedly esteemed the most noble andexalted branch oshumanliterature,regards the various phœnomena ofthose heavenly bodies, which the inventionof carious instruments hath brought withinour observation, from the surface of theterrestrial globe.

It discovers to us their situation, magni-tudes, distances, and motions; and enablesus to determine with precision the lengthof years, months, and days, and to accountfor the vicissitudes of the seasons; and, iaa word, explains whatever falls within ourB con*