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year has been distinguished by a discovery the most remarkable, perhaps, 
ever made as the result of pare intellect exercised before observation, anti 
• M • M A a • ^ a-k Em amamaawaa * a am aim * la a- amma aiaJ_aa^^^ ^ ^ C — -1 _■ ..V.. 
ever made as the result of pare intellect exercised before observation, anti 
determining observation the existence and force of a planet; which 
existence and which force were subsequently verilictl by observation. It had 
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existence and which force were subsequently verilictl by observation. It had 
previously been considered as the grf.at trial and triumph of Dynamical 
Science, to determine the disturbunces caused by the mutual action of " the 
stars in their courses," even when their position and their orbits were fully 
known ; but it has been reserved for these days to reverse the process, and 
to investigate from the discordance actually observu-d, the existence and the 
place of the wondrous stranger which hud been silently, since iu creation, 
exerting this mysterious power. It wa* rtserved for these days to track the 
pam and to measure the force which the great Creator had given to this 
hitherto unknown orb among the luyri.ids ol’ the air. 
I am aware that Lulantle, more than lilty years ago, on two nights—which, 
if he had pursued the object then lirst iliscovernl, would have been well di- 
h;L the rest oi the year, and would have added lu-w glory to 
o to have been the 
o brw& ’ ‘ added to those bright 
these oWrvLon Ti ’’‘^Collect, that Lal.mde was makiag 
PallL J^no I '«z^hOIbers. and Harding had added Cere® 
was pmeTnofoi^v hat't^r 
number of seven ii P ol our system had passed the mystic 
othTs that ancie..; belief-but ihot 
He therefore distrusted his Patient labouru of other observers, 
been mistaken, rather than that^'E^xisLne^^r*^ to bdieve that he had 
been reserved for the discoverv nf *1,;^ i ' ^ another new planet had 
what his judgement faded his eyes saw, but 
recognized tact in science. and apply, has since become a 
Leverrier and^Adams illustrious names of 
tngs and watchings, was the first tn "'bo, in midnight work- 
the hardly happier philosopher who inVnif' 
enab ed to be the h/st, afte” eonal wA li? * Prov.dence, was permitted and 
proclaim the great reality whmh his 8cietir!.*tf"f watchings, to predict and to 
1 .1’®*’’*.' ^.'^'^^‘^'‘stmyselfwithonlvtwn "nd assured him to 
\ ‘■'valry not merely of the 
1 * . mvselt With nnlw ...... 1 ^ '-r**' nna assureo nim u 
b^e that the rivalry nAt n.cJely cL = *>>c one. my earnes, 
Lountrynian Adams, but of tlif» nc Leverrier and of my illus- 
Franc J England. may’aU.ny: 
Without woe. and to studies wh^ch enlarf ' I® Purauita in which victory it 
and ?i ^«y produce alike T tbe mind, and which, 
now I^op^that Ibr d^ 8®°^ to mankind: 
hoi ft" .unplo^ tile sarne .1 I trust may 
there mav stil7^’ marked the reaearel “nd the s.iine la- 
space • and fh triumphs in r1 ^'‘^'"errier and Adams, 
«ers:r.^ 
■*» °“r own. by ,l“ t;a"‘ «'“«ra.muof .1,. v.Iui 
tai*our and the cx|mwt^—«» 
