Ixii NOTES. 



( 223 ) p. 114. Arago, Annuaire pour 1842, p. 348. 

 (M p. 114. Struve, Stellse comp. p. Ixxxii. 



C 225 ) p. 115. Sir John Herschel, Cape Observations, pp. 17 and 102 

 (Nebulas and Clusters, No. 3435). 



( 226 ) p. 115. Humboldt, Vues des Cordilleres et monumens des peuples 

 indigenes de 1'Amerique, T. ii. p. 55. 



( 227 ) p. 115. Julii Firmici Materni Astron. libri viii. Basil, 1551, lib. vi. 

 cap. 1, p. 150. 



( 228 ) p. 115. Lepsius, Chronol. der JEgypter, Bd. i. S. 143. "In the 

 Hebrew text they are called Asch, the Giant (Orion?), the 'many stars,' 

 (the Pleiades, Gemut ?), and the Chambers of the South. The Septuagint 

 version is : 6 iroiStv TLXtiada feat 'EffTrepoj/ Kai 'Apicroupov Kai rafitia 

 VOTOV." 



C 229 ) p. 116. Ideler, Sternnamen, S. 295. 



( 23 ) p. 116. Martianus Capella changes Ptolemseon into Ptolemsetis. 

 Both names were given by the flatterers at the Egyptian Court. Amerigo 

 Vespucci believed he had seen three Canopuses, one of which was quite dark 

 (fosco), Canopus ingens et niger in the Latin translation : no doubt one of 

 the black coal sacks (Humboldt, Exaraen crit. de la Geogr. T. v. p. 227 

 229). In the Elem. Chronol. et Astron. of El-Fergani (p. 100), it is 

 related that the Christian pilgrims were wont to call the Sohel of the Arabs 

 (Canopus), the Star of St. Catherine, because they were accustomed to welcome 

 and admire it as their guiding star in journeying from Gaza to Mount Sinai. 

 In a fine episode in the oldest heroic poem of Indian antiquity, the Ramayana, 

 the stars near the southern pole are declared to be more recently created than 

 the more northern ones for a singular reason. "When the Brahminic In- 

 dians, entering the lands of the Ganges from the north-west, advanced from 

 30 N. latitude farther into the tropics, subjecting the aborigines, as they 

 approached Ceylon they saw stars before unknown rise above the horizon. 

 According to ancient custom, they combined these stars into new con- 

 stellations. By a bold fiction, the later-seen stars were said to have been 

 created later by the wonder-working power of Visvamitra, who " threatened 

 the old gods, that, with his more richly -starred southern hemisphere, he would 

 overpower the northern one" (A. W. von Schlegel, in the Zeitschrift fiir die 

 Kunde des Morgenlandes, Bd. i. S. 240). This Indian myth, expressive of 

 the astonishment of wandering nations at the aspect of regions of space before 

 unseen (as the celebrated Spanish poet, Garcilaso de la Vega, said of those 

 who travel, " they change at once their country and their stars," " mudan de 



