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GENERAL SCIENCE 



in our latitude. They are : The Big Dipper, the Little 

 Dipper or Little Bear ( Ursa Minor), of which the North 

 Star forms the end of the handle or tail, Draco or the 

 dragon, Cassiopeia (in her chair), Cepheus, the royal 

 husband of Cassiopeia, and Perseus (Figure 8). 



Next below the northern circle comes a line or belt of 

 stars describing a larger circle around the pole. These 

 ...-, stars lie below the 



horizon for a longer 

 or shorter time, de- 

 pending on .their 

 position in relation 

 to the pole. They 

 rise in the north- 

 east, make a long 

 slow sweep of the 

 sky, and set in the 

 northwest, finish- 

 ing their circle be- 

 low the horizon. 

 There is another 

 belt of stars that 

 rises somewhere 

 near the exact east- 



North 



Summer 



Autumn 



Spring 



Star Winter 



FIG. 7. 



Positions of the Dipper in Relation to 

 the North Star. 



Seen in the early evening at the seasons named. 



ern point of the horizon, crosses the heavens to the western 

 point in about twelve hours, and remains below the hori- 

 zon for another twelve hpurs. The stars in those circles 

 which lie farther and farther south of us never rise very 

 high in the heavens, only very small portions of these 

 circles being visible to us. 



Some of the most important constellations in these 

 latter belts of stars are: Orion, Hercules, Taurus, Scor- 

 pius, and Cam's Major. In the last-named constellation 



