...was this very thing which caused Mr. Maclearand myself to miss procuring earlier observations, lam sure that I must often have swept, with a night-glass,...Maclear, who saw it with no less amazement on the 24th. The next remarkable feature H the enormously rapid rate of dilatation of the disc and the absorption...

...impossible in any other way to have known it from a star. And, in fact, it was this very thing which caused Maclear and myself to miss procuring earlier observations....night-glass, over the very spot where it stood in the morning before sunrise. And never was astonishment greater than mine at seeing it riding high in the...

...impossible in any other way to have known it from a star. And, in fact, it was this very thing which caused Maclear and myself to miss procuring earlier observations....night-glass, over the very spot where it stood in the morning before sunrise. And never was astonishment greater than mine at seeing it riding high in the...

...to pick it out from among the stars it long precisely counterfeited. " I am sure," he said, " that I I must often have swept with a night-glass over the...stood in the mornings before \ sunrise ; and never was surprise greater than mine at ' seeing it riding high in the sky, broadly visible to the naked eye,...

...impossible in any other way to have known it from a star. And, in fact, it was this very thing which caused Maclear and myself to miss procuring earlier observations....visible to the naked eye, when pointed out to me by Mr. Maclear, who saw it with no less amazement on the 24th. The next remarkable feature, is the enormously...