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The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision
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The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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"... in astronomy, a new constellation of the Northern hemisphere, consisting of 32 stars, first observed by Hevelius. It is situated between Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Perseus, the two Bears, and Draco; and, in the British Catalogue, it contains 58 stars, the brightest being only of the fourth magnitude."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 66
October 14, 2008