WITH A FOURTEEN FEET REFLECTOR. 201 



7. The obtuse angled parallelogram, preceding the v, certainly exists. 



8. All, or nearly all, the visible stars in its neighbourhood are as certainly 

 arranged along its course in apparent intimate connexion with it. (Art. 19. 



Aug. 9.) 



9. It is, without doubt, connected to the v, in the way represented in the 



figure. ' 



10. The loop which parts from the v at the quintuple star, and passing out- 

 wards by the stars 157 and 142, rejoins it near the double triplet of stars. 



11. That this loop sends out a very faint branch towards stars 171 and 174, 

 is more than "nearly certain," though not absolutely so. 



12. The same may be said of a slight nebulosity in the region of the stars 

 183 and 184. 



13. That the stars in this neighbourhood are, to a certain extent, disposed in 

 the same order as the nebulous matter, forming rude chains, or loops, coincident 

 with those of the nebula, is certain. This feature is most strongly developed 

 in the v, and in the parallelogram No. 7 of Art 51, and though less striking, is 

 certainly recognisable in the circuits Nos. 3, 8, 9 and 10 of Art. 52, and in the 

 branch No 1, of Art. 53. (Art. 19, Aug. 1 and 9.) 



14. (Proceeding downwards now towards the triangle of bright stars on the 

 parallel of 30° 40';) the faint band connecting h. 2092 and k 2093, branches 

 from the -i^ near the star 166, and taking the conspicuous stars 176, 121, 129, 

 and 103, in its course, brightens at last into the very considerable intensity 

 mentioned in No. 1. This connexion undoubtedly exists. (Art. 19, Aug. 1.) 



15. The faint branch starting from this band near its connexion with the 4' 

 towards stars 177 and 180, is about as certain as that of No. 11. 



16. The faint branch in the opposite direction, starting from the ^^ at stars 

 166 and 168 towards star 119, — is certain. 



17. (In the bifurcate portion.) Of the two main branches into which it 

 forks, the upper or s p, is far the widest and most conspicuous. They are 

 much too nearly equal in the drawing of Sir J. Herschel. 



18. The w/ branch extends but little beyond the double star 56, 57. 



19. The 5^ branch reaches much farther, fading away in diffused nebu- 

 losity nearly or quite as far down as star 1. (Art. 19. Aug. 10.) 



52. Nearly certain.— I. The long faint trace of light. No. 13 of Art. 51, ap- 

 pears, at first sight, a band of nearly uniform breadth and light, and tolerably 



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