In fig. 40 the stars forming the constellation Andromeda are shown; also the chair of Cassiopeia; and, on the right, one of the fishes and the triangle. A group of stars in the upper left-hand corner marks the place of the rock to which the chains are fastened which bind Andromeda's right hand. [Illustration: Fig. 40.--Andromeda.] It cannot be said that the skeleton picture shewn in fig. 40 is very graceful or artistic; but, on the other hand, it cannot, I think, be doubted that there is enough in it to suggest the idea of a chained person. The fish naturally suggests the idea that the place is by the sea-shore. And the chair suggests the idea of some one on the shore waiting and watching. In our own time, probably, the idea suggested would be that of a person taking a bath, while some one sat in a chair on the sands and waited for their turn. But to the old observers of the heavens, unfamiliar as they were with sea-side diversions, the notion would more naturally occur of a woman chained to a rock, Lifting her long white arms, widespread, to the walls of the basalt; while not far off was imagined among the stars the monster Cetus coming onward, bulky and black as a galley, Lazily coasting along, as the fish fled leaping before it. One of these fish is seen close by the figure of the chained Andromeda. Near at hand they imagined the father and mother of the lady; Cassiopeia sitting close to the shore; but Cepheus far in the palace Sat in the midst of his hall, on his throne, like a shepherd of people, Choking his woe dry-eyed, while the slaves wailed loudly around him. The story of Andromeda, as the reader doubtless knows, is not of Greek origin. Its real origin is lost in a far antiquity. The Indians have the same story in their astronomical mythology, and almost the same names. Thus Wilford, in his Asiatic Researches, relating his conversation with an Indian astronomer, says, "I asked him to show me in the heavens the constellation of Antarmada, and he immediately pointed to Andromeda, though I had not given him any information about it beforehand. He afterwards brought me a very rare and curious work in Sanscrit, which contained a chapter devoted to _Upanachatras_, or extra-zodiacal constellations, with drawings of _Capuja_ (Cepheus), and of _Casyapi_ (Cassiopeia), seated and holding a lotus flower in her hand; of _Antarmada_, chained, with the fish beside her; and last, of _Parasiea_ (Perseus), who, according to the explanation of the book, held the head of a monster which he had slain in combat; blood was dropping from it, and for hair it had snakes."