Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-01-08

the region of think :" | kno,o there are
! [Applause.l But examine the sun once.
and what do 'you see on Il? IL has not a
uniform bright surface, but you see 1t broken
by black spots. Those spots seem to indi-
cate that they are hollows although can
not stop to insist upon that. But those
spots are hollovs below the surface. How
large are they [rhe lecturer here illuStra
ted from the diagram the relative size Of the
sun and the planets that surround It'll The
diameter Of the sun i, hundred times the
diameter of the earth. The snrface is
equal to 100000 oceans much larger than
the Pacific; all that is fun Of agitation
throughout, and tossed into waves OF insult
ferable speudor, thousands of miles long.
Oh, when we look at the sun, as like a giant
he begins his daily course, or when arrived,
in full orbed meridian splendur he almost
seems to pause a moment TO look down upon
the world rejoicing in his presence, or Wien
he sinks to rest arraying himself In the
splendid garments of the evening, under
any and all those circumstances ne is at
once the fitting representative and the
chosen emblem of all that Is great and
beautiful. Applause How large are these
cratersH rhe lecturer here pointed ont
crater represented ON the diagram of the
SUM- Look at the earth and see how easily
it could drop in, and how much margin
would be left. These great openings open
and close sometimes in the space Of three
or four days. The changes are prodigious.
We cannot stop however, to speak Of the
structure OF the sun any further than to
say that the stereoscope has told you, that
there is iron there, and magnesium, and
sundry other things. The phenomena of
Mars, we noticed by the telescope a few
moments ago. Mars has an atmosphere
and, strange to say, be has year two years
long. When one of the poles comes out
of that long Winter Of whole years dura-
tion, some how or other it is all clothed in
white; and when it is exposed to the sun
shine long enough, that white appearance
is gone again. How like it looks to u for
nation OF snow and ice on the Earth, whether
the same sort of material or not. But Mars
has moisture in his atmosphere, and Why
may not, therefore, the accretion be ex.
ceediugly like that on the Earth So far,
then, for what the telescope tells us. Huy-
gems made use of telescope of full % feet
ia length aud four inches aperture e. e.,
diau eter of object glass which he reduced
to two and one-eigrt inches. He also dis
covered satellite to Sa,urn. In 1871
Cassin discovered another satellite, aud
afterwards three more. lie also perceived
the ring of Saturn to be double, soou aiter
a.; 80 r. -, -,
bo y,s .n,;n;n,,ad in ~, 49,. - ,'
two E0gliSh amateurs, Dr.. Ball and Mr..
W. Ball, about 10 years, Tue ring of Sat
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SUbstgntiG Shg,laris, rs Lord Bacon would
say, IN the solar system. Not merely is
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