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2 not improbable that the ret of the Planets have their Dres and Furniture, and perhaps their Inhabitants too as well as this Earth of ours: Epecially if he coniders the later Dicoveries made in the Heavens ince Copernicus’s time, viz. the Attendants of Jupiter and Saturn, and the champaign and hilly Countries in the Moon, which are a trong Argument of a Relation and Kin between our Earth and them, as well as a Proof of the Truth of that Sytem. This has often been our Talk, I remember, good Brother, over a large Telecope, when we have been viewing thoe Bodies, a Study that your continual Buines and Abence have interrupted for many Years. But we were always apt to conclude, that ’twas in vain to enquire after what Nature is doing there, eeing there was no likelihood of ever coming to any Certainty of the Enquiry. Nor could I ever find that any Philoophers, either antient or modern, have attempted any thing upon this Subject. At the very Birth of