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at this and other stations are discussed by 

 Mr. Clayton in the report. Connected with 

 the observatory are a base station four hun- 

 dred and forty feet below it, and a valley 

 station six hundred feet below it. The whole 

 of the Blue Hill has been taken by the State 

 as a public reservation ; but it is not supposed 

 that the operations of the observatory will 

 be interfered with by the act. 



Tlie Celesiial Writiny, or the Normal 

 Script Phonetic Writing^ by W. H. Barloioi 

 is an abbreviated script phonetic mode of 

 writing the English language, founded on a 

 modified form of the consonant alphabet of 

 Gabelsberger. It is introduced as a labor- 

 saving device for the penman, and is de- 

 rived from our common handwriting, from 

 which the extraneous superfluities are cut 

 off. Thus M is written with one stroke in- 

 stead of three, and so on. It is claimed that 

 the art of writing it can be acquired by a 

 person of ordinary capacity within a week. 



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