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towards the star ; this is easily resolvable into extremely mi- 

 nute points or stars, but I cannot discover the slightest indica- 

 tions of attraction or condensation towards any part of it. I 

 certainly had not the least suspicion of this object being resol- 

 vable when I discovered it with the sweeping power, nor even 

 when I examined it a second time ; it is a beautiful object, of 

 a uniform faint light. 



No. 107. R. Asc. 5'^ 52'" 20^ S. Pol. Dist. 19° 46'. 



A very pretty double nebula, with a star in the preceding 

 side of the largest, and a very small star in the south margin 

 of the smallest nebula. 



No. 142. R. Asc. 5*^ 39"^ 30^. S. Pol. Dist. 20° 45^. 

 30 Doradus, Bode 



Is a pretty large ill-defined nebula, of an irregular branch- 

 ed figure, with a pretty bright small star in the south side of 

 the centre, which gives it the appearance of a nucleus. This 

 is resolvable into very minute stars. 



N.B. The 30 Doradus is surrounded by a number of 

 nebulae of considerable magnitudes, nine or ten in number, 

 with the 30 Doradus in the centre. 



No. 152. R. Asc. 5^ 43"^ 50^ S. Pol. Dist. ^0" V. 



A cluster of six or seven small nebula?, forming a square 

 figure 5' or 6' diameter, with several minute stars mixt. This 

 is a very pretty group of nebula?. 



No. 164. R. Asc. 12'^ 49"^ 0«. S. Pol. Dist. 20° 6'. 

 12 Muscae, Bode. 



This is a pretty bright round nebula, about 4' diameter, 

 moderately condensed to the centre. This, with the sweeping 

 power, has the appearance of a globe of nebulous matter with 

 very small stars in the north following margin. But with a power 

 sufiicient to resolve it, the globular appearance vanishes in a 

 very considerable degree ; and the brightest and most conden- 

 sed part is to the preceding side of the centre, with the stars 

 considerably scattered on the north following side. Resolva- 

 ble into stars of mixt small magnitudes. A small nebula pre- 

 cedes this. 



No. 175. R. Asc. 5"" 22^" 7». S. Pol. Dist. 21° 50'. 



A pretty large rather faint nebula, about 5' diameter, irre- 



