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of our States and much of our Territories, and have been rewarded 



nut merely Ly manifold local benefits, l-nt also _ by the higher 



teresls havcVv!ii mixcd^V^' 1 -''^'-'' 1 ' tli.-s.'- uii-1. nuking.' »,'■ 

 A," ' , i,u,'liul to .1 \ d! \ ..I A ..:./,.m 1 \\ .s th,-, ' 





transit of X ti\ '' w ' t'.' t V il'i I "» i u M /- 



had os.-ai.ed the penetrating eye of He.-ehel and ail the great 



■ 

 .amse of Ins perturbations verified ? Was it not by a Yale Col- 

 lege professor that the showers of shooting stars were first scien- 

 ' . , „ . , tl . sion of the grand American display 



of that meteorie phenomenon in 1833? Did we not j ; 



I, ( ,, -, [ t> ', iiii. I ' Did n. t th. C. ngress of the 



i: ■ -■ ., ■- ■.■■■■: ' '• '■' 



converse? Was it not i ' '- . 1 - . 



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ace -1. here the first portraits of 



the human face were made— an experiment that has given rise to 



| :■ mistry.it may truly be affirmed 



thatnowhe. «d ideas, its new conceptions, 



better underst I ..v more eagorlv received. But how useless 



would it be for me to attempt a description m these few moments 

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