considerably larger than its neighboring ones, will attract
them more than they will be attracted by others
that are immediately around them; by which means
they will be, in time, as it were, condensed about a
centre, or, in other words, form themselves into a cluster
of stars of almost a globular figure, more or less
regular according to the size and distance of the surrounding
stars....

"The next case, which will also happen almost as frequently
as the former, is where a few stars, though not
superior in size to the rest, may chance to be rather
nearer one another than the surrounding ones,... and
this construction admits of the utmost variety of
shapes. . . .

"From the composition and repeated conjunction of
both the foregoing formations, a third may be derived
when many large stars, or combined small ones, are
spread in long, extended, regular, or crooked rows,
streaks, or branches; for they will also draw the surrounding
stars, so as to produce figures of condensed
stars curiously similar to the former which gave rise to
these condensations.

"We may likewise admit still more extensive
combinations; when, at the same time that a cluster of
stars is forming at the one part of space, there may be
another collection in a different but perhaps not far-
distant quarter, which may occasion a mutual approach