THE HISTORY OF COMETS.
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journey, a child trundling a hoop would be more than a match for them in speed. It is by this cautious pace they are best fitted to gather news of the remote regions to which they travel, as they are then most liable to have their path changed by unknown bodies. But going at this sluggish pace, they are most apt to be captured and chained for ever to some other system. Yet their very loss would tell an interesting tale.
