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THE STARTING-POINT, OUR EARTH
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friend, Mr. Hollis, when in Paris one day, saw a picture of the supposed return of Halley's comet; he bought it, and has allowed me to reproduce it here. An angel is calling Halley from the grave to see the return of the comet, the

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The Return of Halley to see his Comet
(By a French Artist.)

fulfilment of the prediction he ventured to make.

When Halley had once shown that the comet comes back every seventy-five years, it was easy to calculate when it had appeared before, and they found that it was the comet mentioned by Josephus