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Men of Invention and Industry

CHAPTER XII
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Will you come into the next room and look at it ?" I went accordingly into the adjoining room, and looked at the new telescope.

It was taken from its case, put upon its tripod, and looked in beautiful condition.

It is a refractor, made by Cooke and Sons of York.

The object glass is three inches; the focal length forty-three inches; and the telescope, when drawn out, with the pancratic eyepiece attached, is about four feet.

It was made after Mr.Robertson's directions, and is a sort of combination of instruments.
"Even that instrument," he proceeded, "good as it is for the money, tantalises me yet.


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