William Tyler Olcott

“ Still other suns glitter above the bergs and field ice of the frozen polar seas, on scenes of frigid desolation, and some of the stars we nightly gaze upon are mingling their beams with the arc lights of our great and populous cities.
"Every point in the sky is directly above some point on the earth, and as is the proportion of a given area to the whole sky, so is the proportion of the area it overhangs to the whole surface of the earth." ”

“ Closely identified with Corvus is the constellation Crater, the Cup, an inconspicuous group of stars bounding Corvus on the west. An imaginary line, drawn through the brighter stars in Crater, traces out a bowl-shaped figure, whence its fancied resemblance to a Cup, the title the constellation has borne from time immemorial. ”