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

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 dripping gentle dew. Virgil describes her ascending in a flame-coloured chariot with four horses.

of the New Hebrides Islands in the South Sea, in which Mr Forster supposes the Peak of Etoile mentioned by Mr Bougainville to be situated. It is about 12 leagues long, but not above five miles broad in any part; and it stretches nearly north and south. The middle lies in lat. 15. 6. S. long. 168. 24. E.