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
LICETUS.--An irregular formation, about 50 miles in maximum width, on the
S. of Stofler, with the flanks of which it is connected by a coarse
valley. Neison points out that it consists of a group of ring-plains
united into one, owing to the separating walls having been partially
destroyed. This seems to be clearly the case, if Licetus is examined
under a low sun. On the E. side of the N. portion of the formation, the
wall rises to nearly 13,000 feet.
FERNELIUS.--A ring-plain, about 30 miles in diameter, abutting on the N.
wall of Stofler. It is overlapped on the E. by another similar formation
of about half its size. There are many craters and depressions on the
borders of both, and a large crater between the smaller enclosure and the
N.E. outer slope of Stofler. Schmidt shows eight craters on the floor of
Fernelius.
NONIUS.--A ring-plain, about 20 miles in diameter, abutting on the N.
wall of Fernelius. There is a prominent bright crater on the W. of it,
and another on the N., from which a delicate valley runs towards the W.
side of Walter.
CLAIRAUT.--A very peculiar formation, about 40 miles in diameter, S. of
Maurolycus, affording another good example of interference and
overlapping. The continuity of its border, nowhere very regular, has been
entirely destroyed on the S. by the subsequent formation of two large
rings, some 10 or 12 miles in diameter, the more easterly of which has,
in its turn, been partially wrecked on the N. by a smaller object of the
same class. There is also a ring-plain N.E. of Clairaut, which has very
clearly modified the shape of the border on this side. Two craters on the
floor of Clairaut are easy objects.
BACON.--A very fine ring-plain, 40 miles in diameter, S.W. of Clairaut.
At one peak on the E. the terraced wall rises to nearly 14,000 feet above
the interior. It is broken on the S. by three or four craters. On the W.
there is an irregular inconspicuous enclosure, whose contiguity has
apparently modified the shape of the border. There are two large rings on
the N. (the more easterly having a central peak), and a third on the E.
The floor appears to be devoid of prominent detail.
CUVIER.--A walled-plain, about 50 miles in diameter, on the S.E. of
Clairaut. The border on the E. rises to 12,000 feet; and on the N.W. is
much broken by depressions. Neison has seen a mound, with a minute crater
W. of it, on the otherwise undisturbed interior.
JACOBI.--A ring-plain S. of Cuvier, about 40 miles in diameter, with
walls much broken on the N. and S., but rising on the E. to nearly 10,000
feet. There is a group of craters (nearly central) on the floor. The
region S. of this formation abounds in large unnamed objects.
LILIUS.--An irregular ring-plain, 39 miles in diameter, with a rampart on
the E. nearly 10,000 feet above the floor. A smaller ring between it and
Jacobi has considerably inflected the wall towards the interior. It has a
conspicuous central mountain.
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