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and the 1st of March. The particulars are stated at length in Pro- 

 fessor Silliman's Journal. An observer at Woodstock, Vermont, saw 

 the nucleus and tail in a good telescope, probably a 3^-feet Dollond. 

 Mr. Clark of Portland- Maine, a teacher of navigation, measured its 

 distance from the sun's limb at the time of culmination, and found 

 it to be 6° 15£\ Professor Loomis, of Western Reserve College, 

 Hudson, Ohio, has computed the intensity of the comet's light on 

 the 28th of February, and finds it to have been twenty-four times 

 brighter than on the 1 1th of March ; that is, twenty-four times brighter 

 than a star of the third magnitude. 



Apparent places of the Stars compared above with the Comet. 



