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on aprons and gowns. On shewingme some, I undertook the work, anddrew several for her; some of whichwere copied from her patterns, andthe rest I did according to my ownfancy. On this, I was sent for byother ladies in the country, and begunto think myself growing very rich bythe money I got for such drawings;out of which I had the pleasure ofoccasionally supplying the wants ofmy poor father.

Yet all this while I could not leaveoff star-gazing in the nights, and tak-ing the places of the planets amongthe stars by my above-mentionedthread. By this, I could observe howthe planets changed their places a-mong the stars, and delineated theirpaths on the celestial map, which I hadcopied from the above-mentioned ce-lestial globe.

By observing what constellations theEcliptic passed through in that map,and comparing these with the starryb 3 heaven,