THE STARS FOR MARCH. URSA MAJOR is now (p. 78) swinging round toward the highest part of his course above the pole. It is his forepaw that you see, marked by the letters 6, K, and , very nearly above the pole; while a and B are the "Pointers" whose motion has been already described. The Little Bear is nearly in a horizontal position, and I proceed to give a short account of this small but most interesting constellation. I do not think that the Little Bear, like the larger one, was so named because of any imagined resemblance to a bear. (See Fig. 13.) The original constellation of the Great Bear was much older than the Little Bear, and so many different nations agreed in comparing the group to a |