Excerpt from A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar: And Present State of the Several Kingdoms of the World, Containing the Figures, Motions, and Distances of the Planets, According to the Newtonian System and the Latest Observations, A General View of the Earth Considered as a Planet

T as Pun Thus much being laid with regard to the motion of the earth, which the lmallell re¿eclion may lead us to apply to the other planets, we mull oblerve, before exhibiting our table, that, befides the (even planets already mentioned, which move round the fun, there are fourteen other bodies which move round four of thele, in the fame man ner as they do round the fun and of thel'e our earth has one, called the moon Jupiter has four, Saturn has leven (two of thel'e being latel'

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