Note 203 — INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION.
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The true facts of the case having at length been clearly made out, they are left for elucidation by those who are best qualified to investigate and explain them. The problem is a curious, and, with our still insufficient knowledge of the laws of atmospheric refraction in high latitudes, a difficult one. Nevertheless we may confidently rely on the result being such as eventually to establish the entire veracity of our Dutch historian.203