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...Lick Observatory, in California, is well under way. It is on Mount Hamilton, thirteen miles from San Jose, and nearly 4,500 feet above sea level, with an unobstructed view of the heavens, except a small part of the northeastern horizon, shut out from view by a neighboring mountain peak. There are to be two domes, in one of which a twelve-inch equatorial telescope is now erected. The other is to contain the great thirty-six-inch telescope, the glasses for which are now being ground at Cambridgeport, Mass. The observatory is of the most substantial character, and will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 11/24/1882 | See Source »

...when he was lost." We started on Hanfield Avenue, turned up Victory Street and ascended Mount Garfield, where we could see the charming city Chelsea below us, and in the distance the blue air of Boston. The great questions to be solved were these : Do the blue waves lick the ocean? Is Chelsea built on terraces formed by fish bones from Tafts or by the sea? We thought so. After this solution the instructor was all broke up, and said he wanted a solution with a little glacier in his; but Chelsea being a temperance town...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DIZZY DAY. | 10/29/1880 | See Source »

Student hazards "chastise," and then fizzles because he is afraid that saying "lick" will betray acquaintance with the pony. - Brunonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 1/9/1880 | See Source »

...lick with slimy touch its soft white hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAELSTROM. | 2/25/1876 | See Source »

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