Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . ddo, the capital of Japan, at sunrisethere, the shadows central point firststruck the earth in the Altair mountainrange in Russian Asia, one hundred andsixty-five and a half degrees west fro
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . ddo, the capital of Japan, at sunrisethere, the shadows central point firststruck the earth in the Altair mountainrange in Russian Asia, one hundred andsixty-five and a half degrees west fromWashington, then jiassing in a northwardcurve still, entered United States territoryin Alaska, near Prince Williams sound,at the hour of noon. Thence it rapidlytraversed British Columbia, hit the centerof Montanas northern line, struck theISIississippi river near Sioux Citj, Iowa,passed tlirough Illinois just north ofSpringfield, shaded segments of Indiana,Kentuckj, Virginia, Tennessee, and NorthCarolina, and ended its totality in mid-ocean. The course of the eclipse was inthe form of an ellipse, and the extremelimits of the obscuration embraced nearlyone-half the earths circumference ; whilethe central circular patch of darkness wasabout one hundred and fifty-six miles indiameter. Never were more extensive preparationsmade by governments and men of science,to have thorough observations of a solar. TOTAL ECLIPSE IN 1869. eclipse, than at this time, and never wasthe weather more propitious for such anevent to be noted, in all its phenomena. At Springfield, Illinois, one of the mostavailable spots for observation. ProfessorPeirce, of Harvard College, was in attend-ance. When the total obscuration tookplace, the heavens and earth presented a 200 OUR FIRST CENTURY.—1776-1876. scene of awful sublimity. A brilliantamber-colored corona appeared around thesun and moon, shooting rays of light out-ward in all directions, when the whole hori-zon was illuminated with light of the sameco
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