Saturn, as well as Jupiter, has within itself a system on a scale of great magnificence. In size it is next to Jupiter the largest of the planets, being seventy-nine thousand miles in diameter, or about one thousand times as large as the earth. It has likewise belts on its surface, and is attended by seven satellites. But a still more wonderful appendage is its _Ring_, a broad wheel, encompassing the planet at a great distance from it. As Saturn is nine hundred millions of miles from us, we require a more powerful telescope to see his glories, in all their magnificence, than we do to enjoy a full view of the system of Jupiter. When we are privileged with a view of Saturn, in his most favorable positions, through a telescope of the larger class, the mechanism appears more wonderful than even that of Jupiter. Saturn's ring, when viewed with telescopes of a high power, is found to consist of two concentred rings, separated from each other by a dark space. Although this division of the rings appears to us, on account of our immense distance, as only a fine line, yet it is, in reality, an interval of not less than eighteen hundred miles. The dimensions of the whole system are, in round numbers, as follows: Miles. Diameter of the planet, 79,000 From the surface of the planet to the inner ring, 20,000 Breadth of the inner ring, 17,000 Interval between the rings, 1,800 Breadth of the outer ring, 10,500 Extreme dimensions from outside to outside, 176,000