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290. Burnham found four other faint companions, for wliicli it 

 would be useless for us to look. The remarkable thing is that 

 these faint stars, the nearest of which is distant about 50" from 





the larc-est member of the group and the farthest about IS-." do 

 lot sha're according to their discoverer, in the ra,nd proper mo- 



ti on of the two main stars. ,^ \ t't.^ 



In ; we find a double a little difficult for our three-mch. The 



