Porter, Jermain G · Boston : Ginn & Company · leaf 86
seless one, a title whichrefers, doubtless, to its lone position on the sky, therebeing no other conspicuous star near it. Yindemiatrix,lying some distance to the north, though now but athird magnitude star, would seem from the greatattention paid to it to have been brighter in past ages.The name… … VIRGO, THE VIRGIX 49 especially remarkable for the extraordinary number ofnebula^ that here congregate. Xo other equal areaof the heavens is nearly so ]ich in these mysteriousobjects. Sir John Herschel tirst called attention tothe simificant fact that the oraseous nebula? seem tocrowd towards those…
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