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
MANZINUS.--A walled plain, nearly 62 miles in diameter, with a terraced
rampart rising to a height of more than 14,500 feet above the interior.
Schmidt shows three craterlets on the floor, but no traces of the small
central peak which is said to stand thereon, but to be only visible in
large telescopes.
SCHOMBERGER.--A large walled-plain adjoining Simpelius on the S.W. Too
near the limb for satisfactory observation.
WEST LONGITUDE 20 deg. TO 0 deg.
DELAMBRE.--A conspicuous ring-plain, 32 miles in diameter, a little S. of
the equator, in W. long. 17 deg. 30 min., with a massive polygonal
border, terraced within, rising on the W. to the great height of 15,000
feet above the interior, but to little more than half this on the
opposite side. Its outline approximates to that of a pentagon with
slightly curved sides. A section on the S.E. exhibits an inflexion
towards the centre. The crest is everywhere continuous except on the N.,
where it is broken by a deep crater with a bright rim. The north-easterly
trend of the ridges and hillocks on the E. is especially noteworthy. The
central peak is not prominent, but close under it on the E. is a deep
fissure, extending from near the centre, and dying out before it reaches
the S. border. At the foot of the N.E. _glacis_ there are traces of a
ring with low walls.
THEON, SEN.--A brilliant little ring-plain, E.N.E. of Delambre, 11 miles
in diameter, and of great depth, with a regular and perfectly unbroken
wall. North of it is a bright little crater.
THEON, JUN.--A ring-plain similar in size and in other respects to the
last, situated about 23 miles S. of it on a somewhat dusky surface.
Between the pair is a curious oblong-shaped mountain mass; and on the E.
a long cliff (of no great altitude, but falling steeply on the E. side)
extending S. towards Taylor _a_. Just below the escarpment, I find a
brilliant little pair of craterlets, of which Neison only shows one.
ALFRAGANUS.--A large bright crater, about 9 miles in diameter, with very
steep walls, some distance S.S.W. of Delambre, and standing on the W.
edge of a large but very shallow and irregular depression W. of Taylor.
There is a remarkable chain of craters on the W. of it. Alfraganus is the
centre of a system of light streaks radiating in all directions, one ray
extending through Cyrillus to Fracastorius.
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