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is obvious that here the exertion of a clustering power has 
brought the accumulation and artificial construction of these 
wonderful celestial objects to the highest degree of mysterious 
perfection. 
17. 0 / more distant globular Clusters of Stars, 
The objects contained in this assortment are so like those 
of the foregoing collection that in my observations I have 
called them miniatures of the former. Small instruments can- 
not reach them, I shall therefore describe them as they appear 
when proper powers are applied to them.* 
VI, 35 is “ A cluster of very faint exceedingly compressed 
“ stars, about one minute in diameter. It is the 'next step to 
“ an easily resolvable nebula."' 
VI, 1 1 is “ A cluster of stars about i-j or 2 minutes in dia- 
meter. It is a good miniature of the 19th of the Connoiss. 
not only with respect to the size of the cluster, but also with 
“ regard to the mutual distance and the reduced magnitude 
“ of the stars of Which it consists." 
Connoiss. 9 is “ A cluster of very compressed and extremely 
“ small stars. It is a miniature of the 53d." 
Connoiss. 14 is “ Like an extremely bright, easily resol v- 
“ able round nebula ; but with a power of 300 I can see the 
“ stars of it. It resembles the 10th of the Connoiss. which 
“ probably would put on the same appearance as this, were 
“ it removed half its distance farther from us. The stars are 
“ much condensed in the middle." 
* See eleven miniature globular clusters of stars, five in the milky way VI, 1 1 . 1 2. 35. 
Connoiss. 9. 62. One near the milky way Connoiss, 14; and five at a distance from 
it I, 78. Ill, 709. VI, 7. 41. Connoiss. 75. 
