ABSTRACT
A WEEK or ten days passed without any remarkable occurrences:187a about the end of that time the party had attended a course of philosophical explanations; the younger part of it had learned from an orrery, what no other means are so well calculated to describe, the motion of the planets, which form this astonishing universe: ‘So mark’d on orreries in lucid signs, Star’d with bright points, the mimic zodiac shines; Borne on fine wires amid the pictur’d skies, With ivory orbs the planets set and rise; Round the dwarf earth the pearly moon is roll’d, And the Sun, twinkling, whirls his rays of gold*.’ Afterwards, in talking over what they had seen, Mrs. Woodfield said:
