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                                         NESE AND CHALDAANS.
                                            The last section must have made clear
                                         the difficulties the way of assigning to the
                                         ancient nations their proper place in the
                                         development of primitive notions about as-
                                         tronomy. The fact that some alleged ob-
                                         servations date back to a period before the
                                         Chinese had invented the art of writing leads
                                         immediately to the question how far tradi-
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