A GREAT COMET PREDICTED
Liverpool Mercury March 18th 1864
The following is an extract of a letter just received from
Melbourne:- Professor Newmager, on a three years’ scientific visit to Bavaria ,
tells us that in 1865 a comet shall come so close as to endanger this our
Earth; and should it not attach itself to us ( as one globe of quicksilver to
another) , not annihilate us, the sight will be most beautiful to behold.
During three nights we shall have no darkness but be bathed in the brilliant
light of the blazing tarin! The professor was leaving Australia for Bavaria,
so that we may hear more of this on his reaching Europe.
Sir – The above appeared in the Liverpool Mercury on the 18th
March. As an amateur astronomer, I am anxious to know if there is any truth in
it, and if so, whether the above comet will prove to be one of the small
periodical members of the solar system calculated to cross the Earth’s orbit in
our then immediate neighbourhood, or some gigantic stranger returning from a
2,000 year excursion in space, with illuminating powers sufficient to dispel
the midnight gloom for three consecutive nights, and if there is any danger of
this world being knocked into a hundred asteroids, or a shower of meteoric
stones to puzzle the inhabitants of Venus.
Doubtless if laid before your numerous readers, some amateur
of the advanced class will be found to sift the above predictions pro and cons
and enlighten-
Yours very truly
Hugh Elias
Liverpool March 21st 1864
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