addedgreatly to the stamp duties. To these advantages maybe added the fact that mail robberies, of old so fatal intheir effects, and so expensive in point of prosecution,from that moment were unknown. After a long struggle, in 1813, his son, MajorGeneral Palmer, induced the House of Commons… … INTENTION AND DISCOVERY, 385 THE EAEL OF ROSSES GEEAT TELESCOPE. Nearly two centuries Lave elapsed since Sir IsaacNewton constructed, with his own hands, the first re-flecting telescope—a small instrument of little power,less than a foot in length, and with a speculum of onlyone inch in diameter.…
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