[309] Cosmos I. 140.
[310] Ehrenberg computes that there are forty-one millions of the shells of animalculæ in a cubic inch of Bilier Slate.
[311] Annual of Scientific Discovery, 1860, p. 341.
[312] Psalm cxlvii. 4.
[313] Dick's Sidereal Heavens, 59; Herschel's Outlines.
[314] Architecture of the Heavens, 62.
[315] Architecture of the Heavens, 64. These unresolved milky streaks and patches have since been discovered to be true nebulæ, or phosphoric clouds, in some way connected with their adjacent stars.
[316] Architecture of the Heavens, 144.
[317] Job, chap. xxxviii. 31. Psalm cxlvii. 4.
[318] Genesis, chap. xxii. 16.