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disagreements the few parallaxes we possess have laid a good 

 foundation J a for a knowledge of the dimensions of at least the 

 nearerj parts of the universe. 



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We find an interesting triple in iff, the magnitudes of the 

 larger components being four and a half and eight and a half, 

 distance 30". The smaller star has a nine-and-a-half-magnitude 

 companion, distance 3". A more beautiful triple is i, magnitudes 



