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Mercury furnished them a ram with a golden fleece, 
but as soon as they had mounted, it vaulted to the 
heavens. In the flight, Helle became dizzy and fell 
into the sea, which bears his name—the Hellespont. 
His brother reached Colchis in safety, sacrificed the 
ram to J upiter, and gave the golden fleece, in grati- 
Fig. 80.—Equatorial constellations. (Second group.) 
tude, to ^Etes, who had protected him. According 
to the Greek story, the Argonautic expedition was or¬ 
ganized for the purpose of recovering this fleece. 
About two hours later than the Earn rises one of 
