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month, and deduced from the observations of M. BEssEL: a noble 
proof of the unceasing Jabour of the Konigsberg astronomer. 
The thirteenth table will be regarded as of a novel but useful 
kind. It contains an ephemeris of the comet which is. expected 
to return in the present year, calculated by M. Encke. It is 
calculated on two different hypotheses. According to the first, 
the passage of the perihelion will be on the 24th of May; and 
the second, the 25th. One part of the table is devoted to the 
positions of the comet, lefore the passage of the perihelion, and 
the other to its positions after. 
Mr. Baity, when speaking in his preface of the activity of 
the continental astronomers, makes an eloquent remark, which 
may not be improperly introduced in this place. If the ap- 
pearance of a comet,” says he, ‘* is announced on the continent, 
not only is its course diligently watched, but in a few days its 
elements are computed, perhaps by several persons; and its or- 
bit determined, and reserved for future comparisons. © Whilst in 
this country, it is viewed with silent admiration; and its path 
vanishes equally from our sight, and our remembrance.” 
The fourteenth table contains an ephemeris of Venus for se- 
veral days before and after her inferior conjunction, on the 10th 
of March; and has been adopted by Mr. Baty, from Scuu- 
MACHER’S Ephemeris for 1821. 
The remaining five tables contain similar ephemerides for 
the oppositions of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Ceres. 
Some idea may now be formed of the nature of the tables un- 
der consideration. Mr. Batty has set an example, which, I de- 
voutly hope, will not (to adopt the concluding but expressive 
words of his preface) “ silently expire.”” It would be difficult to 
estimate the debt of gratitude which the practical astronomers 
of this country owe to this excellent astronomer, for his un- 
ceasing efforts to promote the advancement of the noblest of the 
sciences. In this country, there aremany men of sterling genius, 
with minds well adapted to astronomical pursuits, who allow their 
fine and noble powers ro run wild amidst trivial and unimportant 
pursuits, unconscious that they possess the means of cultivating 
the practical departments of this science with ability and success. 
On the other hand, in the lonely solitude of a village, it some- 
times happens, that there exists a mind gifted with the energies 
necessary for the prosecution of those lofty pursuits, and who 
languishes with regret, conscioug of his “ power,”’ but without 
the means of developing its force. But when such individuals 
read in the preface to these tables, the account which Mr. Batty 
has given of the observatory, if it may be so called, of the cele- 
brated O.seRs, of the MAN who has added two'planets to the 
glittering triumphs of modern science;—they will no longer me 
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