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With . telescope constructed by your f.
noas opticiaa, Alvan Clark, Of Can
bridge, Massachusetts,. TIE dark parts
are the seas, the light parss hing land, or
in some cases cloud or snow. Bot in
these pictures most of the lighter portions
represent land; for they have been seen
often % shaped, whereas clouds, Of
course, would change in shape.
The planet Mars, like our earth, turns
on its axis, 20 that it has day and night
a. We have. The length of its day is not
very different from that of our own dey.
Our earth turns once on its axis in y
but before reading on, try to complete
this sentence for yourself. Every one
knows that tho earth's turning on its
axis produces day and night, and nine
persons out of ten, if asked how long the
earth takes in turning on its axis, will an.
swer, "a hours; and II asked how many
times she turns on her axis in year, will
say 365 times, or if disposed to be very
exact, "about 1854 times" But neither
answer is correct. The earth turns on
her axis about 1904 times in each year,
and each turning occupies % hours, SO
minutes and seconds and one-tenth of .
second. We, taking the ordinary day as
the time of q turning or rotation, lose
count of one rotation each year. It is
necessary to mention this, in order that
when J tell you how long tho day of Mars
10, you may be able to correctly compare
it with our own day. Mars, then, turns
on bis axis in "a hours 81 minutes 20 Sec
onds and Z nth-parts of second. So
that Mars requires Al minutes 10 seconds
and six-tenths of . second longer to turn
his small body once round than our earth
requires to turn round her much larger
body. The common day of Mars is, how
ever, only about 30 minutes longer than
that of our common day.
Mars has . long year, taking no less
than 6S7 of our days to complete his cir
cult round the sun, so that his year lasts
only about one month and half less
than two of ours.
Like the earth, Mars has seasons for
his polar axis, like that of tho earth, is
aslant, and at ono part of his year brings
his northern regions more fully into sun.
light, at which time summer prevails
there and winter in his southern regions;
when at the opposite part of his year bis
southern regions are turned more fully
sunward and have their summer, while
winter prevails over his northern regions.
Around his poles, a. around the earth's,
tuoI0 1I0 HEe6t m0SS0o VI 10, AubOWuCu
that it 10 very doubtful whether any IN.
habitants of MARI have been able to pen
citrate to the poles, any more than Kane
or Hayes, or Mares or Parry, despite their
courage and endurance, have been able to
reach our northern pole, or Cook or
Wilkes or James Ross our Antarctic pole.
In the summer of either hemisphere of
Mars, tn north Polar SHOWS become
greatly reduced in extent, as 10 natural,
while in winter they reach to low lati.
tudes, showing thit in parts Of the planet
corresponding to the United States, or
mid. Europe, - to latitude, bitter cold
must prevail for several weeks in success
sion.-Prcf r. A. Proctor, in st. Nicholas.
DANIEL WEBSTER gs~e . reception TO
some Western lawyers one evening, short
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and the dissolatioa Of President Ham
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