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157° 2' 57" = 10" 28™ 11°°8, and this I conelude was at the 
time which we want to ascertain, and which we shall see was 
2788 years ago, the aR in motion of « Urse Majoris, whose 
Arabic name is Alioth. It is the star in the tail of the bear 
nearest to the animal’s body. The present ar of this star ‘is 
12% 49™ 29*8 = 192° 22' 27". The difference between the two 
AR’s is 2" 21™ 188 = 35° 19! 30” or 127,170". 
The Right Ascension, Declination and annual Precession of « 
Ursz Majoris in this present year 1897, and the same at the time 
referred to; and also similar particulars relating to two other 
stars that are entered in the Edinburgh Star Catalogue are all 
set out in the table that follows— 
Right Ascension. Annl,Precn. Declination. Annl. Var. 
¢ Urse Majoris | 192° 22' 27" 39" 6(2%64) N.56° 30’ 28'5 19"-6 
A.D. 1897 f (1a49m99"8) 
«< Ursx Majoris | 157° 2’ 57" 
B.C. 891 j (10" 28™ 1158) 
49 Urse Majoris | N.P.D. 49° 52' 36” 
A.D. 1830 - (1085 1™17*) 51''-045(3*403) N.40°7'24"" 19'-16 
1639 E.A.0.S.C. | 
Leonis Minoris N.P.D. 57° 44’ 5" 
A.D. 1830 -(10"4™228) 52"°17 (35-478) N.32°15'55" 17°56 
1523 E.A.0S.0. { 
Then 51-045 +52-17 07 and 51-608 + 39°6 
5 =b16 3 = 45°604 
Also 19:16 i VWi5565.2 18:36 and 18°36 sa 19°62 18-98 
= -_ 
It is thus seen that the mean annual Precession of « Urs 
Majoris during the period referred to, i.e., during the last 2,788 
years was 45"°604. 
It also appears that its annual variation in Declination was about 
18'-98, which in 2,788 years would amount to 14° 40’ 47”, and 
this added to this star’s present Declination, i.c., to 56° 30’ 
28'S N. gives 71° 11’ 15" as its North Declination about B.c. 
890; and it was seen in the North East. Therefore, at sunrise 
