Dr. Herschel's Observations of a quintuple Belt, &c. 29 
The space from the quintuple belt towards the south pole of 
the planet which is in view, is of a pale, whitish colour ; less 
bright than the white equatorial belt, and much less so than 
the ring. 
The globular form of Saturn is very visible, so that it has 
by no means the appearance of a flat disk. 
Nov. 13, 3 h 30'. The quintuple belt on Saturn is as it was 
Nov. 11. I saw it three hours ago, and several times since, 
without any visible change. 
Nov. 19, 3 h 14'. The southern belt of Saturn is still divided 
into five. The evening is not clear enough to observe changes 
in it, if there were any. 
Nov. 22, 2 h 32'. The quintuple belt on Saturn remains still 
the same ; power 287. 
With 430, I see the same very distinctly, but the small di- 
visions have hardly light enough when so much magnified. 
I viewed the same belt with four different object specula. 
One of them shewed the divisions uncommonly well. 
Dec. 3, o h 35'. 7-feet reflector ; power 287. The quintuple 
belt upon Saturn remains as it was Nov. 22. 
I tried several double and plano-concave eye-glasses, but 
found them all defective in figure except one, and that being 
of one inch focal length, the power was too low to expect see- 
ing these belts well with it. 
The smallness of the field of view, with astronomical objects 
is not so disagreeable as it is generally supposed to be ; for 
the eye may have a motion before the lens, and by that means 
a small luminous object, when all the rest of the field is dark, 
and while the telescope remains in the same situation, may be 
seen for as long a time, passing through the field of a concave 
