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tial globe, and two armillae, in the Obser-
vatory at Peking. Photographed in Peking
by the author in 1875, and stolen by the
Germans when the Embassies were relieved
by the allies in 1900.]
The French Jesuits at Peking, in the
seventeenth century, helped the Chinese in
their astronomy. In 1875 the writer saw and
photographed, on that part of the wall of
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