always opposite to the greater Bear, either above or below the Pole Star.
I See it, said she, very plain, and a very notable Collection of Stars it is; but, pray, said she, what do you mean by calling it Cassiopæia's Chair, who, or what was that Cassiopæa.Cassiopæa? sure I have read something about her, in some Books of the Heathen-Gods.
No doubt of it, Madam, said I, and the Company you will see she is in, will refresh your Memory. This Cassiopæa, the Poets tell you, was the Wife of Cepheus.Cepheus, who was, once upon a Time, King of Æthiopia; and here the good old Monarch stands upon the Globe, with his Scepter in his Hand, just above Cassiopæia; and below her, at the very Edge of the Horizon, you see, you are to look for her fair Daughter Andromeda.Andromeda, who had the Vanity to think herself handsomer than the Neriedes or Sea-Nymphs, which put them into such a Rage, that they immediately applied to old Neptune, the God of the Sea, to revenge the Indignity.
On this, the obsequious Deity sent a huge ugly Monster up into the Country, which did a great Mischief there: The poor People, who in those Days were alwayspunished
