in Astronomy, a northern constellation behind Pegasus, Cassiopeia, and Perseus. It is supposed to represent a female, and has been named in memory of Andromeda, daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, and wife of Perseus, by whom she had been delivered from a sea-monster, to which she had been exposed to be devoured for her mother's pride in boasting that the beauty of Andromeda surpassed that of the Nereids—(Ovid. Met. v.) Minerva translated her into the heavens.

Linnaeus gave the name of Andromeda to a genus of northern Heath.

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1 When the automaton chess-player was last exhibited in Britain, in the present century, it was obvious to the writer of this note, that a man was concealed in the apparatus. The ostentatious display of all the wheels and levers was never made simultaneously, but one door of the compartments containing them was shut before another was opened; and thus a sufficient space was always allowed for the concealment of a small person; who, after the apparatus was finally closed, could assume a more convenient position in the figure of the Turk, see through its glass eyes, and direct its arms to make the different moves. The writer knows that a diminutive person always accompanied the exhibitor, who was en secret always during the performance, was an excellent chess-player, and when the exhibition was over, appeared from his perspiration and exhaustion as if he had been breathing a confined atmosphere.—Ed.