Pray undeceive yourself, for here is a translation of it,' The old gentleman then placed before me a complete manuscript translation of the work, which he had had made specially for himself." The special lion of Franeker, which I visited on my way back from Harlingen, is the Planetarium of Eisa Eisinga, a mathematician and wool-comber, who constructed it alone in his back parlour between 1774 and 1781.

Interest in planetaria is, I should say, an acquired taste; but there can be no doubt as to the industry and ingenuity of this inventor.

The wonders of the celestial law are unfolded by a very tired young woman, whose attitude to the solar system is probably similar to that of Miss Jellyby to Africa.

After her lecture one stumbles upstairs to see the clock-work which controls the spheres, and is then free once more.
Franeker is proud also of her tombstones in the great church, but it is, I fancy, Eisa Eisinga whom she most admires.

She was once the seat of an honourable University, which Napoleon suppressed in 1811.