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among the brighter components, which is 5 Anseris (its com- 

 panion being 4), is of a fine orange hue, verging to scarlet; it 

 has a minnte 12-mag. attendant/, a little n, and a brighter and 

 more distant one n a little p. This great group is preceded by 

 a minute triangle, 8^- and 9 mags., with a 10 -mag. star in its 

 interior. 



We have at present no further reference to make to our 

 previous diagram, but we shall now introduce another to aid 

 us in the examination of an adjacent and not dissimilar region, 

 which, though not illuminated by any very conspicuous star, 

 is possessed of considerable interest. Like the preceding one, 

 from its contiguity to the Galaxy, it is so rich in the smaller 

 classes of stars that merely sweeping over it with an ordinary 



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finder will give us some little idea of the ' astonishing mag- 

 nificence and variety of the heavens, while the further we are 

 enabled to penetrate it the more we shall be impressed with 

 the incomprehensible greatness of the Creator. We begin 

 with the constellation JDelphlnus. Here a very striking pair, 

 one of the most beautiful of its kind in our skies, 7, has already 

 appeared as No. 63 of our list (Vol. II. p. 373), but it may be 

 again adverted to, on account of the discrepancy between 

 Sm.'s magnitude of B, = 7, and that assigned by S, who 

 makes it 5, it being borne in mind that their constant differ- 

 ence would not be apparent in this part of their respective 

 scales. To my own eye, Sm.'s rating certainly appears very 



