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Nubecula major, PI. x. ; and the Nebula of the Dorado represented sepa- 

 rately, PI. ii. fig 4 ( 20-23) : Outlines, 892-896, PI. v. fig. 1 ; and James 

 Dunlop, in the Phil. Trans, for 1828, Part i. p. 147-151. So erroneous 

 were the views of early observers, that the Jesuit Fontaney, an observer highly 

 esteemed by Dominique Cassini, and to whom many valuable astronomical 

 observations from India and China are owing, wrote, as late as 1685 "Le 

 grand et le petit Nuages sont deux choses singulieres. Us ne paroissent 

 aucunement un amas d'etoiles comme Prsesepe Cancri, ni meme une lueur 

 sombre comme la nebuleuse d'Andromede. On n'y voit presque rien avec 

 de tres graudes lunettes, quoique sans ce secours on les voye fort blancs, par- 

 ticulierement le grand Nuage" (Lettre du Pere de Fontaney au Pere de la 

 Chaise, Confesseur du Roi, in the Lettres edifiantes, Recueil vii. 1703, p. 

 78 ; and Hist, de 1'Acad. des Sciences dep. 1686-1699, T. ii. Paris, 1733, 

 p. 19). I have followed Sir John Herschel exclusively in the description of 

 the Magellanic Clouds given in the text. 



( 6 ) p. 252. Kosmos, Bd. iii. S. 183 and 212 (Amn. 85) ; Eng. ed. p. 

 125 and Ixiv. Note 251. 



( 447 ) p. 252. The same, S. 180 and 211 (Anm. 75) ; Eng. ed. p. 122 and 

 Ixiii. Note 241. 



t 448 ) p. 254. Compare, in Cape Observations, 20-23 and 133, the fine 

 drawing, PI. ii. fig. 4, and a small special map in the graphical analysis, PI. x. ; 

 as weU as Outlines, 896, PI. v. fig. I.) 



C 449 ) p. 255. Kosmos, Bd. ii. S. 328 and 485 (Anm. 5) ; Eng. ed. p. 

 289 and xcv. Note 445. 



f 460 ) p. 255. Mem. de 1'Acad. des Sciences, dep. 1666 jusqu'a 1699, T. 

 vii. Partie 2 (Paris, 1729), p. 206. 



( 451 ) p. 255. Letter to Olbers from St. Catherine's (Jan. 1804), in Zach's 

 Monatl. Correspondenz zur Beford. der Erd- und Himmels-kunde, Bd. x. S. 

 240. (Respecting Feuillee's observation, and the rough drawing of the black 

 patch in the Southern Cross, compare, also, Zach's Correspondenz, Bd. xv. 

 1807, S. 388-391). 



( 452 ) p. 256. Cape Observations, PI. xiii. 



( 453 ) p. 256. Outlines of Astronomy, p. 531. 



t 454 ) p. 256. Cape Observations, p. 384, No. 3407 of the catalogue of 

 nebulse and star-clusters. (Compare Dunlop, in the Phil. Trans, for 1828, 

 p. 149, and No. 272 of his catalogue). 



( 456 ) p. 257. " Cette apparence d'un noir fonce dans la partie orientale de 

 la Croix du Sud, qui frappe la vue de tous ceux qui regardent le ciel austral, 



