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in other ways to accumulate facts to aid us in interpreting the 
nature of these mysterious objects. A fresh interest has been 
given to such researches by the revelations which the spectro- 
scope has been made to afford under the able hands of Mr. 
Huggins. The same remark applies, without the change of a 
word, to the observation of comets. 
Lastly, in the observation of eclipses, transits, occultations, 
and other phenomena of the like nature, the observer has 
pursuits which may either prove simply interesting to himself, 
or valuable to others, according to the method he may adopt in 
effecting, recording, and interpreting his observations. 
