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the Ecliptic cuts the Equator is call'd the [[underline]] Equinoxtial Colure, [[/underline]] the other at [[underline]] 90 [[/underline]] degrees on the equator therefrom is called the [[underline]] Solsticial Colure. [[/underline]] The Poles of the Ecliptic are two points 90 degrees from the Poles of the Earth. -- The fixed Stars are so called because they keep nearly the same distance among themselves. their ˄ [[addition]] discernable [[/addition]] number is supposed to be about [[underline]] 4000, [[/underline]] without including [[underline]] 21 lately discovered in the sword of Orion 36 in Pegasus, 78 in the asterism of the Pleides, [[/underline]] and [[underline]] 200 in the Constellation of Orion; [[/underline]] from which it has been concluded that there are above 2 millions besides those of the Milky way. -- [[underline]] Syrius [[/underline]] in the Constellation of the [[underline]] great dog, [[/underline]] has been estimated to be 2 millions of millions of Miles from us; and a Star of lesser magnitude has been computed to be
