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Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], The starry heavens. (search)
r, shining with a steady, burning lustre, which rivals in brilliancy even Sirius in the southwest. A line drawn from Jupiter through Regulus, and continued as far eastward, will point at Saturn, always easily recognized by its pale, steady lustre.-- These two great planets will continue to adorn our evening sky for some months to come.--Mars and Venus only are wanting to make this planetary spectacle complete. The splendid constellation Orion, in the meridian, presents sufficient starry attractions for one night; but Procyon and Sirius of the Hyades and Pleiades, will ever be present to divide its glory and share its homage. The beautiful star Capella looks meekly down from the zenith, on all these; and the great, brilliant circumpolar constellations, Cassiopeia, the Great Bear, and the contortious Draco, outwatch them all in the north. Castor and Pollux and the Presepe, in the Crab, are at a higher altitude than Jupiter, eastward of the meridian.-- Boston Courier, Feb. 26th.