St Nicholas [serial] . Jforizon of iondon /Encr) > Horizon of JVewOr/eans T/ieSourAernS/cyatiOvMAprilSOiat^PMMaySyand a f:h magnitude. But although the unusual light, heat of that remote sun faded thus quicklyyet if inhabited worlds circled around thatthe cooling of their sun must have come far .; |, ate to save those creatures lives. If our sun.„(, |j to shine even but for twenty-four hours with pent, Hydra, occupying the leading position. Thisis the longest, and nearly the largest, of all the con-stellations. It began to show itself in our southernregion last month, and you w
St Nicholas [serial] . Jforizon of iondon /Encr) > Horizon of JVewOr/eans T/ieSourAernS/cyatiOvMAprilSOiat^PMMaySyand a f:h magnitude. But although the unusual light, heat of that remote sun faded thus quicklyyet if inhabited worlds circled around thatthe cooling of their sun must have come far .; |, ate to save those creatures lives. If our sun.„(, |j to shine even but for twenty-four hours with pent, Hydra, occupying the leading position. Thisis the longest, and nearly the largest, of all the con-stellations. It began to show itself in our southernregion last month, and you will not quite see the endof it for three months yet to come ; so that it showsitself in no less than five of our southern maps. 388 THE STARS IN APRIL. [Apm This is another constellation which has changed inposition owing to the mighty reeling motion of ourearth. When the constellation was first formed,. THE CONSTELLATION OF THE LION. the Sea-serpent extended along the equator; and Ithink originally represented the great serpent whichwas supposed to gird round the ocean. I havesometimes thought that when this constellation wasframed (and Cetus, too), there may still have re-mained some few of those long-necked, paddlingsea-monsters whose skeletons are found from timeto time m various parts of the earth. You knowthat Mr. Gosse, in a sketch called the GreatUnknown, maintains that there are stilla few of these monsters left, who, beingseen from time to time with their longnecks reared above the sea, have beenregarded as sea-serpents. But thoughthis may be unlikely or impossible, asProfessor Owen seems to think, one maywell believe that such monsters wereeither known or remembered, three orfour thousand years ago. The bright star Cor Hydras (or theSerpents Heart) is also called Alphard(or the Solitary One). The head of theSea-serpent is marked by the stars f, t,and <i, which may be rem
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