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in distinguishing the different stars, but I do not remember any of 
them so successful as this. Necessity is the mother of invention, 
and no doubt the circumstances of aboriginal Herschels of the 
Mallee Scrub contributed to their success in the matter. 
The name Aguila is perhaps preserved in the aboriginal name, 
ToryaRGUIL. 
Let us follow a different line of inquiry. Glancing over the 
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aboriginal combination of astronomy and mythology, we find 
quadrupeds. When we come to birds, we find the 
eagle, the crow, and other birds fixed in the mythological skies by _ 
inhabitants of Asia and Europe, and by those of Australia. 
of men in Orion going through the evolutions of the corro 
represented as a group of young damsels. 
mythology the faint Plei arses, is obscure compared with the 
others, becau: 
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> d analogies, Even the special notice of the less brilliant Merope 
80 near the surface of observation that it would be unsafe to 
d much upon it. These coincidences, however, should be 
