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OUR EARrH's DISTANCE FROM THE OTHER PLANETs.-To convey to your minds any idea of the immense distance which seper ates us from those twinkling orbs which nightly gem our Armament, is utterly i'm possible. We may talk of millions and thousands of millions of miles, but this serves only to perplex and confound the feeble intellect of finite man. l may tell you that light, which flies at the rate of ten millions of miles in second, and which is conveyed to the distaut planet of l.e NerrieI and reflected back to us in the short space of few minutes. will require ten years in coming from the nearest fixed star; and if that star was suddenly plotted fiom exist ence, it would continue to shine for ten long years in the place it once occupied. Even were it possible for us 10 transport ourselves to the very confines of our system, or to the plane, of Le Verrier, we should still contin- ue to see these objects in their old places, and, to all appearance, no nearer than be- fore. Here would be Sirius blazing in ifs wonted SD endoi yonder we should see Orion; and there the Polar Bear.

 Prof. MicheN.