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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 22, 21 July 1864, Page 3

.'Heat from df^ S.^ says;. — ."It is a startling fact that if the'earth were "Hepen^eiit I 'alone upon the sun for -heat jit wbMd'iiot get enough to * Keep- "existence * "in" animal" aSd^fvegetable ... : life upon its;surface.y 'lti results ttont|li^researches, of Ppuillet_ Jhat__the ' 'stars 5 ' furnish heat i enough in the., course jof the 'year'iio inelt J a crust '4^ iCe^BeyeßAy-^ve, feet thick— almost aj3 much.as is* supplied by^tKe^sun^; *Si^-maj;,api)ear stramge,* when we consider ■how immeasurably small must be the amount* of ieat received fqomY any one' ''of tfiose 'dist;akfe:l}pdies. But-the- : Kiirprise' the ,whple..£rTa^ f9^*?Y withi stars,' itiiatYinyßomprplafces thousands' are crowded- together witHin/ a space no fc tKan t}^^^ the^ftill ,■ modi£ Tb# feye cd___ot''' see moie-ithah i %*^^_^i^ ii W l^^^same; time •' jnffjjffi ~ -eteafesf'h'eaven, yet~^e^umßer -is'^ro- ' ' übablyAiiifinite. {Fromthe first sixth magnitiide inclusiv.. the toM nuihber of * WEi_B Wf^SS^^^'-A r w •SOQ33LQAiII£ ,33_<£LkO : ;y :A .*** mi