THE MOON:

HER MOTIONS,, ASPECT, SCENERY, ANDPHYSICAL CONDITION.

BY

RICHARD A. PROCTOR , B.A. Cambridge,

Honorary Secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society ;

AUTHOR OP “ THE SUIT,” “ SATURN" AND ITS SYSTEM,” THE OEBS AROUND US,’*“ BSSAYS ON ASTRONOMY,” ** OTHER WORLDS THAN OURS,”

ETC. ETC.

“With how sad steps, 0 Moon , thou climb’stthe sky, —

How silently and with how wan a face !” —Wordsworth .

“ Art thou pale for wearinessOf climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,Wandering companionlessAmong the stars that have a different birth,—

And ever changing, like a joyless eye

That finds no object worth its constancy Shelley.

WITH THREE LUNAR PHOTOGRAPHS BY RUTHERFURD

(enlarged by brothers)

AND MANY PLATES, CHARTS, Etc.

LONDON :

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.1873 .

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