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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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