$&£ Mr. Hf.RSCHEL bn the 
direction, refemblmg the fhoals that are feen near the coafts of 
foriie iilands. 
The ninth is that in the girdle of Andromeda, which is un- 
doubtedly the neareft of all the great nebulae; it§ extent h 
above a degree and a half in length, and, in even one of the 
narrowed: places, not lefs than i6' in breadth. The brighteft 
part of it approaches to the refolvable nebulofity, and begins 
to fliew a faint red colour ; which, from many obfervations on 
the colour and magnitude of nebulae, I believe to be an indica- 
tion that its diftance in this coloured part does Hot exceed 2006 
times the diftance of Sirius. There is a very confiderable, 
broad, pretty faint, fmall nebula near it ; my Sifter difeovered 
it Auguft 27, 1783, with a Newtonian 2-feet fweeper. It (hews 
the fame faint colour with the great one, and is, no doubt, in 
the neighbourhood of it. It is not the 3 id of the ConfiGtffante 
des Temps ; which is a pretty large round nebula, much con- 
denfed in the middle, and fouth following the great one ; hilt 
this is about two-thirds of a degree north preceding it, in a 
line parallel to (3 and v Andromeda. 
To thefemay be added the nebula in Vulpecula*. for, though 
its appearance is not large, it is probably a double ftratum of 
ftars of a very great extent, one end whereof is turned towards 
us. That it is thus fituated may be furitufed from its contain- 
ing, in different parts, nearly all the three ncbulotities ; b'tz. 
the refolvable, the coloured but irtefolvable, and a thief tire of 
the milky kind. Now, what great length muff be required to 
produce thefe effects may eaftly be conceived wnen, in all pro- 
bability, o\ir whole fyftem, of about Be o ffars in diameter, if 
it were feen at fuch a diftance that one end of it might affume 
the refolvable nebulofity, would not, at the other end, prefent 
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