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30 Millions of Millions of Miles from our Earth. -- Every fixed is a Sun having [[underline]] Planets, [[/underline]] and [[underline]] Comets [[/underline]] moving round it, like us, and the others which move round our Sun. from this it may be presumed that if the universe does not extend beyond the power of weight numbers, and measure, it is vastly beyond [[underline]] the reach of human [[/underline]] comprehension. The Cause of the [[underline]] Tides [[/underline]] or Ebbing, & flowing, of the Sea is accounted for by Sir Isaac Newton in the following manner. -- 1st -- to whatever part of the Earth's Globe, the Moon is vertical the waters near that part rise considerably upward by their gravitation towards the Moon which the lands would also do, were they not firmly held by the force of cohesion; 2dly the gravitation of the Earth towards the Moon is as the gravitation of a mass of matter,
