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These particulars are issued and telegraphed thrice daily, and 

 during the day there are also issued maps of the Continent, 

 showing what has been the state of the weather during the last 

 four-and-twenty hours, and what will probably be the state of 

 the weather during the next twenty-four. Upon the immense 

 importance of such numerous details it is impossible to be 

 too emphatic ; a similarly perfect system should be demanded 

 by science from our own Government before it should be too 

 late to reap the full benefit of the labours of English meteorologists. 

 We know that great progress has been made in our own meteoro- 

 logical department, but still we are very far from the advanced 

 ground of our American cousins, who will quickly bear off the 

 palm in this respect, if it be not already gone. 



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