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two or three bright ones. Its striz are spiral rather than reset, 
and its o igh is ns es a sky adjoining it, how 
of sinall tamindas a s like meteors crossing t ark image of 
the moon from cusp to cusp. Subsequent] the were seen to 
pass over the pasends glass from outside of the field ‘on to the i image 
of the sun, where of course they were lost, always coming from the 
same side. We were led by this circumstance to regard them as 
most likely to be optical illusions, perhaps insects with transparent 
wings or bodies, but the fact that other — report a shower 
of meteors between the moon and the e , which seemed to be, 
s far as I can gather from a hasty aA identical in appear- 
an with the obj ects noticed by us, our observation may be of 
them, is disposed not to regard them as optical illusions, since 
ps must have been ena a objects not less than 2,000 feet dis- 
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termining in what proportion the moon’s heat consists of (1) that 
coming from the interior of the moon which will not vary with 
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