THE STELLAR UNIVERSE. 



clusters ; in tine, having all the characters already explained in 

 the cases of the large diffused nebulae described above. So great 

 is the number of distinct nebula) and clusters crowded together in 

 these tracts of the firmament, that 278, besides 50 or 60 outliers, 

 have been enumerated by Sir J. Herschel, within the area of the 

 nubecula major alone. 



