Some misapprehension app as to the appearance of the telescope. Tt was represented not long ago ina London daily paper as mounted on an enormous tripod stand, the artist having evidently wed his inspiration from the Embankment telescope through which the stars may be regarded at the modest rate of a penny atime. As a matter of ct, the tube will simply lie horizontally stone pillars, each thirty feet ud will point directly at a" large ar mirror pivoted upon a massive iron stand and so nicely regulated hinery that the mere pressure of 0 finger will turn the mirror in any required direction. The mirror is further provided with clockwork to counteract the effects of the earth's rotation and keep the image under examination in its 1 reflecting surface. The eye-piece of the telescope is also moved by clockwork in a rotary direction so that the image maintains its position in relation to the two wires which cross the field of the instrument at
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