[Sidenote: _Cosmical_, _Acronical_, and _Heliacal rising_ and
_setting_.]
The ancient Poets make frequent mention of the Stars rising and
setting, either _Cosmically_, _Acronically_, or _Heliacally_; whence
these distinctions are called _Poetical_.
A Star is said to _rise_ or _set Cosmically_, when it rises or sets at
Sun-rising; and when it _rises_ or _sets_ at Sun-setting, it is said
to rise or set _Acronically_. A Star _rises Heliacally_, when first it
becomes visible, after it had been so near the Sun as to be hid by the
splendor of his rays: And a Star is said to _set Heliacally_, when it
is first immersed, or hid by the Sun’s rays.
The _Fixed Stars_, and the three superior Planets, _Mars_, _Jupiter_,
and _Saturn_, rise _Heliacally_ in the morning; but the Moon rises
_Heliacally_ in the evening, because the Sun is swifter than the
superior Planets, and slower than the Moon.
IV. _Of the surface of the Earth, considered as it is composed of Land
and Water._
The Earth consists naturally of two parts, Land and Water, and
therefore it is called the _Terraqueous Globe_. Each of these elements
is subdivided into various forms and parts, which accordingly are
distinguished by different names.