The letters of Thomas William Webb to Arthur Cowper Ranyard volume I

central dark space, indicating the hollowness of the tail, which

extended close up to the nucleus. It did not seem quite consistent

with the commonly received idea of a hemispherical envelope.

Please to tell your Son, with my kind regards, that I am much pleased with his telescopic success – and if he will find out on a Globe or Map, the Constellation Delphinus, now easily to be recognised on the meridian – the stars of which are something like this

Yours very faithfully

Thomas W Webb

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