at the Cape of Good Hope. | 89 
between the palm branch and northern wing of Virgo; and again 
in the same hour, from 80° to 87° N. P. D., in the northern wing 
and breast of Virgo. Northward, the nebulous area terminates 
almost abruptly with a very rich patch, between the nose of Cam- 
elopard and the tail of Draco. The line of greatest condensation 
connecting these most condensed patches, is irregular and wavy, 
without appearance of reference to any one particular centre ; 
and the shading off, though patchy, is on the whole gradual. 
4. That the southern portion of this great nebulous region, 
extends but little, at least with any marked intensity, beyond the 
equator, though it may perhaps be considered as prolonged by 
one or two pretty rich patches in the 13th and 14th hours of R. 
A. as far as the 141st degree of N. P. D., where it is abruptly 
terminated. These patches occupy the point of the southern 
wing of Virgo, and the region about the tail of Hydra, and head 
of Centaurus. The lesser nebulous region in the northern hem- 
isphere, extending in R. A. from about 22h. to 2h., and from 50° 
to 60° N. P. D. to the equator, beyond which it also projects con- 
siderably into the southern hemisphere, is much less concentra- 
ted, and has none of those densely congregating groups, or cen- 
tres of accumulation, which form so distinct a feature in the other. 
Confining ourselves at present to its development in the northern 
hemisphere, it occupies the chest and wing of Pegasus, and the 
southern Fish, the area included by the connecting band of the 
Fishes, the northern Fish, and nearly the whole of Andromeda. 
This the author calls the nebulous region of Pisces. 
_ 5. That between these principal masses, an almost total diseon- 
Nection exists throughout the region from 16h. to 19h. on the 
one hand, and from 3h. to 6h. on the other hand, from the pole 
‘ down to the equator; for the few nebule sporadically scattered 
over this great area, are quite insufficient to convey any idea of 
Junction, though perhaps a thread of connection may be traced 
across the head and sword of Perseus through Camelopardalus, 
with the dense mass of nebule which forms the northern limit 
of the nebulous region of Virgo. This spree pe 4 
over’ Canis Minor os ’ . - . * . 
but without any other prevalent feature in their distribution, to 
the region of Virgo, and complete our survey of the northern 
