the morning twilight, or that faint light which appears in the morning when the sun is within 18 degrees of the horizon.

the goddess of the morning, according to the Pagan mythology. She was the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, according to Hesiod; but of Titan and Terra, according to others. It was under this name that the ancients deified the light which foreruns the rising of the sun above our hemisphere. The poets represent her as rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew. Virgil describes her ascending in a flame-coloured chariot with four horses.

one of the New Hebrides islands in the South sea, in which Mr Forster supposes the Peak d'Etoile mentioned by Mr Bougainville to be situated. The island is inhabited; but none of its inhabitants came off to visit Captain Cook. The country is woody, and the vegetation seemed to be excessively luxuriant. It is about 12 leagues long, but not above five miles broad in any part; lying nearly north and south. The middle lies in S. Lat. 15. 6. E. Long. 168. 24.