<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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