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Southland Times, Issue 879, 10 January 1868, Page 3

Fayb'S theory is that the sun is to be conceived as an immense mass of intensely heated gaseous and dissociated matter, so condensed, however, that, notwithstanding its excessive temperature, it has a specific gravity not much below that of water, probably offering a condition analogous to that which Cagniard de la Tour observed for volatile bodies when submitted to great pressure at temperatures much above their boiling point. The radiation of heat going on from the surface of such an intensely heated mass of uncombined "gases will produce a superficial cooling, which will permit the combination of certain elements and the production of solid or liquid particles, which suspended in the still discocated vapours, become intensely luminous and form the solar photosphere. The condensed I particle?, earned down into the intensely heated mas 3 agsin, meet with a heat of dissociation, so that the process of combination at the surface is incessantly renewed, while the heat of the sun may be supposed to be maintained by the slow condensation of its mass j a diminution l-1000th of its present diameter being sufficient, according to Helmholts, to maintain the present supply of heat for 21,000 years.