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that the display might be even finer than the night be before but we were doomed to disappointment.  At two o'clock we arose in the light of the moon attired ourselves in some what fantastic garb and descended with Father to the office & thence out into the dampness of night.  A very bright moon we saw & some isolated stars, wh shone [[?]] down upon our upturned faces, their steady rays testifying to their determination to keep in their places but the erratic visitors we expected were no where visible.  With strained vision & stiffened necks we soon returned to the office where Father gave us a lecture upon meteors in general & the meteors in particular wh. we desired to see.  The latter he informed us probably a comet wh. we in our our ^[[unusual]] [[?]] around the sun has come in contact.  Fortunately for
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us that its solidity were [[no?]] greater or we might have had practical proof of how small a part ^[[our little world]] plays in the drama of the universe  How little the harmony of the spheres would be disturbed were it eliminated somewhat perhaps to the astonishment of such our philosophers & theologians who labor under the slight delusion that the whole of Gods creation was intended for the edification of Man.  Father said the meteoric shower in thirty three he witnessed with great delight.  He had just gone to Princeton then & was awakened by one of the students.  The sky was brilliant with them shooting apparently in every direction but he soon perceived that they all came from one point in the sky near the constellation Leo. & the apparent divergent lines they pursued was the effect of perspective.  After looking at the globe & determining how high Leo ought to be we again proceeded to look
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