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paper from a celestial globe belongingto a neighbouring gentleman. Thepoles of the painted globes stood to-ward the poles of the heavens ; oneach, the 24 hours were placed aroundthe equinoctial, so as to strew the timeof the day when the fun shone out, bythe boundary where the half of theglobe at any time enlightened by thesun was parted from the other half inthe shade; the enlightened parts ofthe terrestrial globe answering to thelike enlightened parts of the earth atall times. So that, whenever the funshone on the globe, one might fee towhat places the fun was then rising,to what places it was setting, and allthe places where it was then day ornight, throughout the earth.

During the time I was at Sir James’shospitable house, his sister, the Ho-nourable the Lady Dipple, came thereon a visit, and Sir James introducedme to her. She asked me whether Icould draw patterns for neetste-work

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