Excerpt from The Orbs Around Us: A Series of Familiar Essays on the Moon and Planets, Meteors and Comets, the Sun and Coloured Pairs of Suns

This volume contains matter which, if space had permitted, I should have included in Other Worlds than Ours, ' partly in the way of introduction or explanation, and partly to complete the information contained in the several chapters. It will be under stood that to make this work complete/in itself, I have admitted certain passages which contain infor mation already given in Other Worlds than Ours but such passages amount in all but to some ten or twelve pages, the rest of the work is strictly supplementary to that volume.

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