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rotation of the earth, she is dragging tb.e below the great white dome of the observ- 

 hem of the garment in the Pacific Ocean, atory. . . 



for the gorgeous stellar hosts by untold Stars by millions are rising and the 

 millions in Scorpio and Sagittarius are glittering points emerge from peaks and 

 vanishing bevond the waterv wastes. My crags worn by the wind, scarred and 



southern and southwestern horizons are 

 water, while the eastern is a scries of 

 majestic sentinel peaks rising thousands 

 of feet above the floor of the canyon far 



shattered by the lightning. To-night I 

 beheld a moon of Jupiter rise behind a 

 distant rock before the edge of the 

 mighty disk appeared. Early this morn- 



