Or seems that old Opinion of more Sway, That the Sun's Horses here once run astray, And a new Path mark'd in their straggling Flight, Of scorching Skies, and Stars adusted Light. ] [Footnote Y: Nor must that gentle Rumour be supprest, How Milk once flowing from fair _Juno's_ Breast Stain'd the celestial Pavement, from whence came This milky Path, its Cause shewn in its Name. ] [Footnote Z: When from the hurried Chariot Light'ning fled, And scatter'd blazes all the Skies o'erspread; By whose Approach new Stars enkindled were, Which still as Marks of that sad Chance appear. Manilius. ] [Footnote AA: A Way there is in Heaven's expanded Plain Which when the Skies are clear, is seen below, And Mortals by the Name of _Milky_, know, The Ground-work is of Stars---- _Ovid's_ Met. lib. i. ] But [AB]Democritus long ago believed them to be an infinite Number of small Stars; and such of late Years they have been discovered to be, first by _Gallaleo_, next by _Keplar_, and now confirmed by all modern Astronomers, who have ever had an Opportunity of seeing them through a good Telescope. [Footnote AB: _Plutarch (in Placitis Philosoph.)_] PLATE XIV. Is from an Observation I made myself, of a bright Part of this Zone near the Feet of _Antinous_; which, (by a Mistake of the Engraver) is, as it appears through a Tube of two convex Glasses. I saw it through a very good Reflector, and formed the Plan by a Combination of Triangles. _Milton_ takes notice of this Zone in a most beautiful Manner, where he describes the Creator's Return from his six Day's Work to Heaven, he introduces it as a Simile to express his Idea of the eternal Way, or Road to the celestial Mansions. ----A broad and ample Road, whose Dust is Gold And Pavement Stars, as Stars to thee appear, Seen in the _Galaxie_, that Milky Way, Which nightly as a circling Zone thou seest Powder'd with Stars.