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Kinau, Madler, and finally Schmidt, followed, till, in 1866, when the latter published his work, Ueber Rillen auf dem Monde, the list was thus summarised: In the 1st or N.W. quadrant 127 rills In the 2nd or N.E. quadrant 75 rills In the 3rd or S.E. quadrant 141 rills In the 4th or S.W. quadrant 82 rills or 425 in all.
"They're not furrows, dear friend," said Barbican, "and can't be, either, simply on account of their immense size. They are what the German astronomers called Rillen; the French, rainures, and the English, grooves, canals, clefts, cracks, chasms, or fissures." "You have a good stock of names for them anyhow," observed Ardan, "if that does any good."
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