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comete qui a disparu le 30 juin, mais que M. Messier et 

 M. Mechain ont suivis sans interruption, jusques dans le 

 crepuscule. 



Je vous prie de demander les bontes de votre digne frere 

 pour M. Ungeschick, qui est un astronome de merite, et qui 

 a bien du zele, mais en vous voyant le zele augmentera. 



MISS HERSCHEL TO M. DE LA LANDE. 



SLOUGH, Sept. 12t7i t 1790. 

 DEAR SIR, 



Our good friend, General Komavzewski, will persuade 

 me to believe that I am capable of giving you pleasure by 

 writing a few lines ; but I am under an apprehension that 

 he is overrating my abilities. You, my dear sir, certainly 

 overrated them when you thought me deserving of express- 

 ing your esteem for me in so public a manner as the General 

 and Mr. Ungeshick have informed me of. 



I do not only o'we you my sincerest thanks for your good 

 opinion of me, but my utmost endeavours shall be to make 

 myself worthy of it if possible. M}' good brother has not 

 been omissive in furnishing me with the means of becoming 

 so in some respects. An excellent Newtonian sweeper, of 

 five-feet focal length, is nearly completed, which, being 

 mounted at the top of the house, will always be in readi- 

 ness for observing whenever my attendance on the forty or 

 twenty-foot telescopes is not required. 



I hope the little god-daughter is in good health, and wish 

 she may grow and give happiness and pleasure to her parents 

 and uncle. 



I beg to present many respectful compliments to the 

 ingenious ladies you mentioned in your letter. 



Mrs. Herschel desires to be remembered to you, sir. We 

 do not give up the hopes of seeing you again at Slough, 



