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though sometimes blurred by mist in the
                                         local winter. A spot sketched by Huyghens
                                         in 1672, one frequently seen by W. Her-
                                         schel in 1783, another by Arago in 1813,
                                         and nearly all the markings recorded by
                                                     ˜
                                         Beer and MAdler in 1830, were seen and
                                         drawn by F. Kaiser in Leyden during seven-
                                         teen nights of the opposition of 1862 ( Ast.
                                         Nacht. , No. 1,468), whence he deduced the
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