Chapter 6
If ever a continent might be proud of one of the countries composing it, like a father of one of his children, that continent was North America. If ever a Republic might be proud of one of the States constituting it, that Republic was the United States. If ever one of the States figuring in the stars of the Federal Flag might be proud of its cities, that State was Virginia. And if, in fine, there was a town in Virginia that ought to be proud of its citizens, this town was Whaston, in which such an important addition had just been made to astronomic science.
The foregoing was in fact the opinion of the Whastonians, who felt, as they read the newspaper panegyrics, that the glory of Mr. Dean Forsyth and Dr. Sydney Hudelson was in a manner their own. With the discovery that had bee
