^2 Mr Dunlop's Catalog'iie q/' Nehulce and 



is probably a beautiful specimen of the nebulosity of which 

 the remote portion of that magnificent zone is composed. 



Its situation in the heavens is between 0'' 27' and 1'^ 6' or 

 T in right ascension, and between 74° 30^ and 72° 53' in south 

 declination. Its position is oblique to the equator, south pre- 

 ceding and north following ; and its form is nearly that of a 

 parallelogram about two degrees long and fully one degree 

 broad, and may be arranged according to its natural general 

 appearance, into bright, faint, and very faint nebulosity. The 

 bright nebula forms the south extremity and the preceding 

 side, and is equal to the breadth of the nebula at the south 

 end, and gradually diminishing in breadth and brightness till 

 it termifiates in an accumulation of the nebulous matter in the 

 north extremity. The bright portion of the nebulous matter 

 is not uniformly bright, but has something the appearance of 

 small cumular clouds, although not very decidedly marked, 

 and which I cannot well delineate. The faint nebula which 

 is on the following side, is broad at the north extremity and 

 gradually diminishing in breadth to where, with the other 

 faint shade, it joins the following side of the brighter portion 

 of the nebula, near the south extremity. The very faint shade 

 is also on the following side, and extends from the northern 

 to the southern extremity of the nebula, and is rather more 

 Strongly marked at what I would call its terminating border, 

 than where it joins or blends with the faint shade ; and I sus- 

 pect it is faintly connected with a patch of faint nebula which 

 follows at a little distance. 



There are two pretty bright small nebulae situated in the 

 following margin of the bright shade, and a considerable num- 

 ber of faint nebulae and accumulations of the nebulous matter 

 variously situated throughout, and also in the patch which 

 follows ; but they are described in the general catalogue. 



The figure of the Nebula Major is so irregular, and divided 

 into so many parcels, that without the assistance of letters of 

 reference it will be impossible for me to attempt a description. 

 However, the appearance and construction of the different ne- 

 bulae which compose it, are more minutely described in the ge- 

 neral catalogue. I will here only attempt to describe the ap- 

 parent connection of one portion or branch of the nebulous 



