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AERONAUTICS. 



and other countries, there is reason to believe that our 

 knowledge of this most difficult department of science will 

 go on increasing until the knotty problem is finally solved. 

 If this day should ever come, it will not be too much to 

 affirm, that it will inaugurate a new era in the history of 

 mankind ; and that great as the destiny of our race has been 

 hitherto, it will be quite out-lustred by the grandeur and 

 magnitude of coming events. 



