I can no more believe that the components of this cluster are stars greatly varying in distance, but accidentally seen in nearly the same direction, (or that they form an _enormously long system_ turned by accident directly towards the earth), than I could look on the association of several thousand persons in the form of a procession as a fortuitous arrangement.
Next there is the great nebula in Andromeda--known as "the transcendantly beautiful queen of the nebulae." It will not be difficult to find this object.

The stars [epsilon] and [delta] Cassiopeiae (Map 3, Frontispiece) point to the star [beta] Andromedae.

Almost in a vertical line above this star are two fourth-magnitude stars [mu] and [gamma], and close above [nu], a little to the right, is the object we seek--visible to the naked eye as a faint misty spot.

To tell the truth, the transcendantly beautiful queen of the nebulae is rather a disappointing object in an ordinary telescope.

There is seen a long oval or lenticular spot of light, very bright near the centre, especially with low powers.