It is with no feeling of pride as an American that the remark may be made that on the comparatively small territorial surface of Europe there are existing upward of 130 of these light-houses of the skies, while throughout the whole American hemisphere there is not one.
Adams points out the lack of astronomical observatories in the Americas compared to Europe, expressing a sense of national pride.
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