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constantly regarding the sky near the zenith. In numbers there was not 
half, and in brilliancy not more than a small fraction, of the display of 
the previous year. It was less striking on the 10th than on the 9th o 
any 
indication of periodicity can yet be traced in the fluctuations of this 
compiling of the present Report, for this date has long since been no- 
ticed by Baumhauer, in 1845, and again more recently by Wolf, while 
would assign, if the planet had been originally in a fluid state ac- 
cordance with hydrostatical laws, a planet similar to Mars, and rotatory 
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