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j Tub Distaxcbof tub Sun from the Earth

lscKEV3iNO.The! German Uou'naU hav

giTen some tabk-s which prove that the dist­

tance between the earth and sun is iucreas

ing aunually, and argue from it thnt the in

creasing humidity of our summers and the

os of Caruliiy by'the earth, are to be attribrb

in,

j d solely to th, is, circumstance. , 1

j cret lt3tofcrftJea given to tr

dilions of ancient Egyptians an Chinese, ac

wording to whk-h tneRe fotde formerly said

the sun's dise was almost four times as large

1 1 as we now see it, for thy estimated the ap

1 1 parent diameter of the sau as double of what

i Ut is seen in our day.

! Tf, however, w av aten tion to the con-

tinned dimiautidn of the apparent iiameter

ot the sun, ac oidiogNto the best observation

of several ceatuiies, Jwd must suppose that

the ancients were not no U taken in th estK

mates they hve transmitted lb us, v

pItt the : eoutse ot six thousand years from

, the present time, they assume that the dis

tanc will be to ereat that only an eighth

paprt bf the wrmth we now enjoy froai the

vn will b communicattd to the earth. . and

it will then Ih covered .with eternal ice in

the same manner as wenw V-c the plains of

sue norm, wnvre tne eu-pnant romeriv lived.

tu.A UTf BilBtJr ' spring nor ftituma