Excerpt from The London General Gazetteer, or Geographical Dictionary, Vol. 1 of 3: Containing a Description of the Various Countries, Kingdoms, States, Cities, Towns, &C. Of the Known World; An Account of the Government, Customs, and Religion, of the Inhabitants, the Boundaries, and Natural Productions of Each Country, &C Fantastic plan havehaandisesusad in momentary, whscrhltsaasba tween those of Mars and Julius, but they are ofsurh inconsiderable size, the largest being much inferior to our Moon, that the term asteroids: has been applied to them. The first, and largest, wasdiscovered bym. Piaasi, at Palermo, January 1st, 1801, and is called Cares: embmatmoomflss, auditsdistancs from thaflnnabova mm miles. The second was discovered Dr. Olbers at Breton. Mmh.28th, 1809, and is named Pallaa; the third, discova by M. Harding, at Lilienthal, near Bremen, September 1st, 1801, is called Juno; and the fourth, discovered by Dr. Olbers, March saw, mm, is named Vesta. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.