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Astronomical Dialogues.

go on and make an end of our Stars, it grows late and the Air cold.

Madam, said I, we shall dispatch the rest, as fast as you please, for the Way I have shewn you, of finding and distinguishing the Stars above-mentioned, will teach you to do so, by any others in the Heavens: Thus you will see here above the Pole-Star, and about 14 Degrees from him, and a little to the Eastward of the Meridian, the Constellation, called the Ursa Minor.Little Bear, consisting also of seven pretty eminent Stars, of which the lowermost, now, or that in the Tip of his Tail, is the Pole-Star: You see here, almost due East, a fine bright Star of the first Magnitude, which is called Lucida Lyra.Lucida Lyra; and under it, a little to the South of the East, as Lyra is to the North, another great Star of the first Light, about 12 Degrees high, which is called Alcair.Alcair: And you can't but take Notice of these four Stars here all of the second Magnitude, placed in the Form of a Lozenge, which is called the Dolphin.Dolphin. About 8 Degrees high, and about 2 Points and 1/2 to the Eastward of the South, you see also a famous Star, of the first Light, in the Scorpion's Heart.Body of Scorpio, one of the 12 Signs.

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