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or low Nile-floods in Egypt follow the plan-
etary positions.
And, again, the desire to foretell the
weather is so laudable that we cannot blame
the ancient Greeks for announcing the influ-
ence of the moon with as much confidence
as it is affirmed in Lord Wolseley’s Soldier’s
Pocket Book .
Even if the scientific spirit of observa-
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