Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 149
llinois. It is only since 1870that really huge instruments have multipliedand are nightly turned upon the starry skies toask the questions which seem to our impatienceso slowly answered. But many answers have come, after all, andsome things are clear which before could onlybe surmised. For… … MARS IN 1877. our bright though dead and desolate moon,from which air and water have long sincedisappeared. And ifMars has air, the polarcaps alone would seemto show that he hasalso ice and snow ; andthere appear to be, aswell, areas of water ormarsh, though less inextent than the land.The northern…
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