The moon : $b a full description and map of its principal physical featuresElger, Thomas Gwyn
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The moon : $b a full description and map of its principal physical features
Elger, Thomas Gwyn
Moon
HIPPALUS.--A partially ruined walled-plain, about 38 miles in diameter,
on the W. side of the Mare Humorum, S. of Agatharchides. At least one-
third of the border is wanting on the S.E., but under a low sun its site
can be distinguished by a faint marking and the obvious difference in
tone between the dark interior and the lighter-coloured plain. The rest
of the wall is bright and continuous, except at a place on the W., where
what appears to be the segment of a large ring has encroached upon it.
There are two craters in the interior of Hippalus, and a row of parallel
ridges, running obliquely from the S.W. wall up to a cleft which
traverses the floor from N. to S. W. of Hippalus stands a bright crater,
Hippalus A, with an incomplete little ring-plain adjoining it on the
N.W.; and N.E. of it a much larger obscure ring containing two little
hills. The Hippalus rill-system is a very interesting one, and the
greater part of it can, moreover, be easily traced in a good 4 inch
achromatic. It originates in the rugged region E. of Campanus, from which
five nearly parallel curved clefts extend up to the rocky barrier,
connecting the N. side of this formation with the S.W. side of Hippalus.
The most westerly of these furrows is interrupted by a crater on this
wall, but reappears on the N. side of it, and, after making a detour
towards the W. to avoid a little mountain in its path, runs partially
round the E. flank of Hippalus A, and then, continuing its northerly
course, terminates amid the mountains W. of Agatharchides. (A short
parallel cleft runs E. of this from the little mountain to the E. side of
A.) The most easterly member of the system, originating N. of Ramsden,
enters Hippalus at the S. side of the great gap in the border, and, after
traversing the floor at the W. foot of a ridge thereon, also extends
towards the mountains W. of Agatharchides. Between these clefts are three
intermediate furrows, one of which runs N. from the N. side of the
encroaching ring already referred to, on the W. wall of Hippalus.
CAMPANUS.--A ring-plain, 30 miles in diameter, on the rocky barrier,
extending in nearly a straight line from Hippalus to Cichus. Its terraced
walls, which rise on the E. more than 6000 feet above the floor, are
broken on the S. by a narrow valley, and on the E. by a small crater. A
small central mountain is apparently the only object on a very dark
interior.
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