By E. M. TEE 
THE PLANET MARS. 
This beautiful colour drawing by M. Antoniardi, if set up ? of a mile from the observer, will appear larger than the actual planet at its 
nearest approach to the earth! Such a comparison gives some idea of the immense distance—48,000,000 miles—which separates us from 
Mars. The planet is shewn as seen through a 33 inch telescope, when the spider's web of straight ‘ canals” of smaller telescopes gives 
place to indefinite detail even more puzzling. 
