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NE of the chief advantages derived by the preent generation from the improvement and diffuion of Philoophy, is deliverance from unneceary terrours, and exemption from fale alarms. The unuual appearances, whether regular or accidental, which once pread conternation over ages of ignorance, are now the recreations of inquiitive ecurity. The un is no more lamented when it is ecliped, than when it ets; and meteors play their corucations without prognotick or prediction.