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 easily, Madam, said I, and you will find that the Motion of the Earth alone round its Axis will sufficiently account for all the rest; for these fixed Stars don't in Reality move at all, but only appear so to do. And you must know, that there is one Star, or a Point very near it, towards which this Pole, or End of the Earth's Axis, (which is called the North-Pole) doth always point: This is the Star here on this Celestial Globe, and if it be fair, and the Sky clear, in the Evening, I will shew it you in the Heavens: 'Tis said, by Astronomers, to be in the Tip of the Tail of the Little Bear, a Constellation of Stars so called; you see there are seven of these Stars in all, placed on the Globe within the Picture or Figure of a Bear: The Reason of the Figure I will tell you hereafter.

, said she, good Sir, don't take it amiss if I interrupt you with one Question: Is this Tip of the Bears Tail, that celebrated Tip of Cardan the Conjurer; who, as Butler saith,