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is to say, upon the distance of its sensible transmission, and irrespective of local or other conditions, changing its direction, or producing reflection and refraction, which will require separate consideration.

The conditions in nature that are most effective and frequent in modifying the distance of transmission of the wave, in formations of the same, or nearly the same materials, are—

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