MAGELLANIC-CLOUDS, whitish appearances
like clouds, seen in the heavens towards the south pole,
and having the same apparent motion as the stars.
They are three in number, two of them near each
other. The largest lies far from the south pole; but
the other two are not many degrees more remote from
it than the nearest conspicuous star, that is, about 11
degrees. Mr. Boyle conjectures, that if these clouds
were seen through a good telescope, they would ap-
pear to be multitudes of small stars, like the milky-
way.