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IT is to be hoped that Continental observers may have been more favoured than ourselves with opportunities of scrutinising that grand display which has been for some time presented to us by this, the most wonderful of all the solar train. For more than one reason the almost unbroken persistence of that vaporous shroud which has long been investing our unfortunate sky is matter of especial regret. The broad development of that system in all its equally strange and beautiful detail;—its lofty culmination in our midnight heaven;—the probability that many who might look upon it now may never witness its return to a similar position of advantage—all find their place in the account. We can only now look for intelligence from other quarters, and hope that something more cheering may yet be in store for ourselves, before the advancing twilight steals away our opportunities; and that possibly, before these remarks meet the public eye, a change may have supervened to gladden the heart of the British observer.
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WEBB, T. Saturn . Nature 31, 485–486 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/031485a0
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