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took to calculate what the amount would be
on all the five suppositions that had been
made about the period. After a laborious
work, he found that none gave one day in
ˆ
seventy years except the 33A-year period,
which did so exactly. H. A. Newton pre-
dicted a return of the shower on the night
of November 13th-14th, 1866. He is now
dead; but many of us are alive to recall the
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