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ern ones were Gould’s at Cordova and Stone’s
                                         at the Cape.
                                            After this we have a new departure. Gill
                                         at the Cape, having the comet 1882.ii. all to
                                         himself in those latitudes, wished his friends
                                         in Europe to see it, and employed a local
                                         photographer to strap his camera to the ob-
                                         servatory equatoreal, driven by clockwork,
                                         and adjusted on the comet by the eye. The
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