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 placed the blind giant in the skies. The most superb of constellations represents even in modern poetry a mythical demigod. In science it was but the other day that the awful whirl of nebulæ developed by the Lick telescope revealed it to us almost as a distinct universe in itself.

But to show the distinction as directly affecting A modern instance. modes of expression, take the first of countless illustrations that come to hand; for instance, the methods applied to the treatment of one of our recurrent coast storms. The poet says:—

Or take this stanza by a later balladist:—

All this impersonation and fancy is translated by the Weather Bureau into something like the following:—

An area of extreme low pressure is rapidly moving up the Atlantic coast, with wind and rain. Storm-centre now