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So far, I have related domestic expeditions to see the total solar eclipse of 1869. European astronomers ignored the affair, knowing that the total eclipse of 1870 would soon come their way. Nevertheless, there was one expedition from another country to the fringes of the United States that summer. It was mounted from Canada, a country only confederated two years before.
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born, in fact, in Iowa
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This mirror is now housed in a telescope at the Collège de Jésuites, Quebec.
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the pseudonym of nineteenth-century American humorist Charles Browne
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The nonsensical forced rhyme in the first verse does not bespeak of poetic talent.
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Hockey, T. (2023). 11: The Canadians: Toques on the Frontier. In: America’s First Eclipse Chasers. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24124-6_11
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