Celestial and tferreftria! Globes. 123

two places are nearest parallel, and that willstrew the bearing sought.

Thus the bearing of the Lizard Pointfrom the island of Bermudas is nearlyE N E 5 and that of Bermudas from theLizard is W S W, both nearly upon the famerombj but in contrary directions,

A parallel sphere

213. Is that position of the globe, in whichthe poles are in the zenith and nadir, its axisat right angles to the equator and horizon,which coincide; and consequently thosecircles which are parallel to the equator, arealso parallel to the horizon.

The inhabitants of this sphere, if anythere be, must live upon the two terrestrialpoles, and will have but one day and onenight throughout the year; and the moon,during half her monthly course, will neverrife, and during the other half will neverset: all the fixed stars, visible to those peo-ple, will describe circles every day parallelto their horizon.

A right