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To fhe Editor. Fir —Would you oblige a number of your renders on the 1 aieri Plain by saying if it would have been possible to have seen Venus crossing the Fun’s disc on the flth with the naked eye, provide d it had been a fine day. —I am. &c., Amateur. Mosgiel, December 11. [Many persons in Dunedin on the 9th saw the planet on the Fun’s disc with the naked rye. If the sky had been perfectly clear, the eye would have required to be protected with a smoked or colored lass—a film of cloud intervening answered the pnr pose ef protector. The phenomenon could have been observed equally well on the Taieri Plain.— Ed. E. S.]
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Evening Star, Issue 3685, 14 December 1874, Page 3
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123TRANSIT OF VENUS. Evening Star, Issue 3685, 14 December 1874, Page 3
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