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--“L ET THERE BE LIGHT! proclaim d the AL- MIGHTY LoRbD,

Aſtoniſh'd Chaos heard the potent word;

Through all his realms the kindling Ether runs,

And the mals ſtarts into a million ſuns;

anthers, and ſtyles without ſtigmas of ſeveral plants, as mention- ed in the note on Curcuma, Vol. Il. ofthis work. Such as the halteres, or rudiments of wings of ſome two-winged inſeCts; and the paps of male animals; thus ſwine have four toes, but two of them are imperfe&ly formed, and not long enough for uſe. The allantoide in ſome animals ſeems to have become extin&; in others is above tenfold the ſize, which would ſeem neceſlary for its purpoſe. Buffon du Cochon. T. 6. p. 257. Perhaps all the ſuppoſed monſtrous births of Nature are remains of their ha- bits of production in their former leſs perfect ſtate, or attempts

towards greater perfection.

Through all his realms. 1. 105. Mr. Herſchel has given a very ſublime and curious account of the conſtruction of the hea- vens with his diſcovery of ſome thouſand nebulz, or clouds of ſtars; many of which are much larger collections of ſtars, than all thoſe put together, which are viſible to our naked eyes, add- ed to thoſe which form the galaxy, or milky zone, which ſur- rounds us. He obſerves that in the vicinity of theſe cluſters of ſtars there are proportionally fewer ſtars than in other parts of the heavens, and hence he concludes, that they have attradted gach other, on the ſuppoſition that infinite ſpace was at firſt equally ſprinkled with them; as if it had at the beginning been

Alled with a fluid maß, which bad coagulated. Mr. Herſchel

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