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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Tennyson, "In Memoriam," cvi.
[2] Homer, "Odyssey," v. 273.
[3] Homer, "Odyssey," Book v., 121-124.
[4] Ibid., Book xi., 571-574.
[5] The pole-star, however, is not the true polar point, but distant from it about 1° 32', which, in A.D. 2100, will be decreased to 26' 30".