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  <f306r.P.10;W>     during the opposition of a great light was seen on -
  <f306r.P.11;W>     the illuminated part of the disk first at the lick observatory -
  <f306r.P.12;W>     then by perrotin of nice and then by other observers english -
  <f306r.P.13;W>     readers heard of it first in the issue of nature dated august -
  <f306r.P.14;W>     i am inclined to think that this blaze may have been the -
  <f306r.P.15;W>     casting of the huge gun in the vast pit sunk into their planet -
  <f306r.P.16;W>     from which their shots were fired at us peculiar markings as -
  <f306r.P.17;W>     yet unexplained were seen near the site of that outbreak -
  <f306r.P.18;W>     during the next two oppositions =

  <f306r.P.19;W>     the storm burst upon us six years ago now as mars -
  <f306r.P.20;W>     approached opposition lavelle of java set the wires of the -
  <f306r.P.21;W>     astronomical exchange palpitating with the amazing intelli -
  <f306r.P.22;W>     gence of a huge outbreak of incandescent gas upon the planet -
  <f306r.P.23;W>     it had occurred towards midnight of the twelfth and the -
  <f306r.P.24;W>     spectroscope to which he had at once resorted indicated a -
  <f306r.P.25;W>     mass of flaming gas chiefly hydrogen moving with an -
  <f306r.P.26;W>     enormous velocity towards this earth this jet of fire had -
  <f306r.P.27;W>     become invisible about a quarter past twelve he compared -
  <f306r.P.28;W>     it to a colossal puff of flame suddenly and violently squirted -
  <f306r.P.29;W>     out of the planet as flaming gases rushed out of a gun =

  <f306r.P.30;W>     a singularly appropriate phrase it proved yet the next day -
  <f306r.P.31;W>     there was nothing of this in the papers except a little note in -
  <f306r.P.32;W>     the daily telegraph and the world went in ignorance of one -
  <f306r.P.33;W>     of the gravest dangers that ever threatened the human race -
  <f306r.P.34;W>     i might not have heard of the eruption at all had i not met -
  <f306r.P.35;W>     ogilvy the wellknown astronomer at ottershaw he was -
  <f306r.P.36;W>     immensely excited at the news and in the excess of his feel -
  <f306r.P.37;W>     ings invited me up to take a turn with him that night in a -
  <f306r.P.38;W>     scrutiny of the red planet =

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