Aries, the Ram, 66 Taurus, the Bull, 141 Gemini, the Twins, 85 Cancer, the Crab, 83 Leo, the Lion, 95 Virgo, the Virgin, 110 Libra, the Balance, 51 Scorpio, the Scorpion, 44 Sagittarius, the Archer, 69 Capricornus, the Goat, 51 Aquarius, the Water-Bearer, 108 Pisces, the Fishes, 113 FOOTNOTES [Footnote 1: Tennyson, "In Memoriam," cvi.] [Footnote 2: Homer, "Odyssey," v. 273.] [Footnote 3: Homer, "Odyssey," Book v., 121-124.] [Footnote 4: Ibid., Book xi., 571-574.] [Footnote 5: The pole-star, however, is not the true polar point, but distant from it about 1° 32', which, in A.D. 2100, will be decreased to 26' 30".] [Footnote 6: Homer, "Odyssey," Book v., 275.] [Footnote 7: Manilius, "Astronomicon," Book i., 291-300.] [Footnote 8: Manilius, "Astronomicon," i., 308, 309.] [Footnote 9: This displacement amounts to about fifty seconds annually, or, more accurately, to 50".3. It is easy, therefore, to calculate that the complete rotation of the terrestrial axis around the poles of the ecliptic will occupy 25,765 years.] [Footnote 10: These are also called the Pointers, because an imaginary line from the lower to the upper, prolonged in the same direction, passes nearly over the Polar Star.] [Footnote 11: Pliny, "Historia Naturalis," Book ii., 24.] [Illustration] CHAPTER II. _WHAT MAY BE SEEN UPON THE EARTH._ Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold. --KEATS. [Illustration]