Footnotes for Chapter XII.
[1] A "poet," who dates from "New York, March 1883," has
published seven stanzas, entitled "Change here for Blairgowrie,"
from which we take the following:--
"From early morn till late at e'en,
John's honest face is to be seen,
Bustling about the trains between,
Be 't sunshine or be 't showery;
And as each one stops at his door,
He greets it with the well-known roar
Of 'Change here for Blairgowrie.'
Even when the still and drowsy night
Has drawn the curtains of our sight,
John's watchful eyes become more bright,
And take another glow'r aye
Thro' yon blue dome of sparkling stars
Where Venus bright and ruddy Mars
Shine down upon Blairgowrie.
He kens each jinkin' comet's track,
And when it's likely to come back,
When they have tails, and when they lack--
In heaven the waggish power aye;
When Jupiter's belt buckle hings,
And the Pyx mark on Saturn's rings,
He sees from near Blairgowrie."
[2] The Observatory, No. 61, p. 146; and No. 68, p. 371.
[3] In an article on the subject in the Dundee Evening Telegraph,
Mr. Robertson observes: "If our finite minds were more capable
of comprehension, what a glorious view of the grandeur of the
Deity would be displayed to us in the contemplation of the centre
and source of light and heat to the solar system. The force
requisite to pour such continuous floods to the remotest parts of
the system must ever baffle the mind of man to grasp.
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