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62 And again when the husbandman conducts water down the slope to restore his thirsty crops,

Describing the end of the Golden Age and the commencement of the reign of Jupiter, he says:

Dec. 30, 1841.

When the snow is falling thick and fast, the flakes nearest you seem to be driving straight to the ground, while the more distant seem to