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a chain of stars partly surrounding the little bear; and between Cassiopeia 

 and the swan is the constellation Cepheus. 



Near Algenib, and pointing directly towards it, are two stars of Andro- 

 meda, and a third is a little beyond them. A line drawn through the 

 great bear and Capclla passes to the Pleiades, and then, turning at a right 

 angle towards the milky way, reaches Aldebaran, or the bull's eye, and the 

 shoulders of Orion, who is known by his belt, consisting of three stars, 

 placed in the middle of a quadrangle. Aldebaran, the Pleiades, and Algol, 

 make the upper, and Menkar, or the whale's jaw, with Aries, the lower 

 points of a W. In Aries we observe two principal stars, one of them with a 

 smaller attendant. 



A line drawn from the pole, midway between the great bear and Capella, 

 passes to the twins and to Procyon; and then, in order to reach Sirius, it 

 must bend across the milky way. Algol and the twins point at Regulus, the 

 lion's heart, which is situated at one end of an arch, with Denebola at the 

 other end. 



The pole star and the middle horse of the wain direct us to Spica Vir- 

 ginis, considerably distant: the pole and the fust horse nearly to Arcturus, 

 in the waggoner, or Bootes. Much further southwards, and near the milky 

 way, is Antares, in the scorpion, forming, Avith Arcturus and Spica, a 

 triangle, within which are the two stars of Libra. The Northern crown 

 is nearly in a line between Lyra and Arcturus, and the heads of Hercules 

 and Serpentarius are between Lyra and Scorpio. 



In the milky way, below the part nearest to Lyra, and on a line drawti 

 from Arcturus through the head of Hercules, is Aquila, making with Lyra and 

 Cygnus a conspicuous triangle. The last of the three principal stars in An- 

 dromeda makes, with three of Pegasus, a square, of which one of the sides 

 points to Fomalhaut, situated at a considerable distance in the southern fish, 

 and in the neighbourhood of the whale, which has already been mentioned. 



By means of these allineations, all the principal stars that are ever- visible 

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