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Rh mind, than by occupying the vacant spaces beyond Saturn.

His opportunities would have been profoundly modified, though his personal worth would have been the same.

To show how completely unknown the private astronomer of Bath was at this time, I transcribe a sentence from Author:Johann Elert Bode account of the discovery of Uranus.

"In the Gazette Littéraire of June, 1781, this worthy man is called ; in ' Journal Encyclopédique, ; in a letter from Mr. to M., ; in another letter of  to Herr , at Mannheim, ; M.  calls him . What may his name be? He must have been born a German."