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 Head of Comet of 1811.

XI. THE HISTORY OF COMETS.

are induced to return to the subject of comets, chiefly on account of the sudden appearance (1860) of one of these bodies in the northern horizon, which is suspected by some to be one of much historical interest, and whose return has been long expected. At the date of our writing, nothing is positively known about it except its physical aspect.