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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1171, 30 April 1872, Page 4

' ' ' :\>Jtie BBoeut aolar eclipse, df Which two - V(^iddnnrsbl»Tacc<>dntsii(p))e^io (( Nv - tare," from the pens of" Mt Norman Lockyer and Mr Ju£i iMaclear, seems, fti ', have finaUysetatTeit the little doubt which still remained a* to the cbaracte? of the proved com£ r pyiieSf that if Is. a solar appendage,; and ; - u ftdt'ane .fa, <he atraospliere jdf -tne/'^urth. *h«' omMtionff'^dre/'ifi^ond'Sf: the India? stations .very 'to'tSarE^ spuilel by I ( he^xcitemerft'6f i iiHe natives, whq set * the jgftaas on Sro by way of a hostile; d*- .: mQnatration against the^monVtetywbq was ; eatipgi.ap the.,Bun^' .^djihad npt \ the been r speedily jitainped ouFby the (■ European .guard), ihe'sinoljre might mate- ' , TUlIy have injored the teleaoopic oboerva,-, ■ ibnaeMA' The rumors}'? JBjra MrlMac}eir;/ f ; writing from Bekul, near Mangaljrei, -on 1 ' thil l&Ubat c^Jiat,/ ".that our presence 1 BKfi9jpßQ to araou" the natives were very . amusing. .First we heard.tbpt part of the rSiNBtWMi about to-falljand: the jwwjmen, , had cpnie to the East to prevent it| TTie'n; - ' : ■; wbeu Jthe farmidAble4pokinginstniiiientawere seen mounted on the fort, they' thooght there.- was' a? war,ia{nd; we weref j engineers going to put the fort in order] Wptevenf 'lah'din^'Thir i ,..«teaj(^e^4-^bj&^he/fact. r t)iat.4ie'iQlas-' gow practised at a target before returning to Ceylon. This theory gave plaee;to a jlood abunt-te- descend, and that alt the Europeans Were coming to" th«j "' high , , ground to escape it." The scientific ob- ' hsve felt strangely 1 amongst aobh critics of their pr^edings^-fa^tics,' ' ' ' too, who w^ British subjects ; the com- < 1 plelft I^:6rance not only of , What they y erq but of the'.whQle, iprpyinoe of interests, with which these observers' Li lived weJrjp identified, must have realised _i^ J tliftm..njaxvjeUpUjsb r .Jhe great .chaam ' still existing between. man and man. ! > '