STOFLER.—­A grand object, very similar in size and general character to Maurolycus, its neighbour on the W. To view it and its surroundings at the most striking phase, it should be observed when the morning terminator lies a little E. of the W. wall.  At this time the jagged, clean-cut, shadows of the peaks on Faraday and the W. border, the fine terraces, depressions, and other features on the illuminated section of the gigantic rampart, and the smooth bluish-grey floor, combine to make a most beautiful telescopic picture.  At a peak on the N.E., the wall attains a height of nearly 12,000 feet, but sinks to a little more than a third of this height on the E. It is apparently loftiest on the N. The most conspicuous of the many craters upon it is the bright deep circular depression E. on the S. wall, and another, rather larger and less regular, on the N.W., which has a very low rim on the side facing the floor, and a craterlet on either side of the apparent gap.  A large lozenge-shaped enclosure abuts on the wall, near the crater E., with a border crowned by a number of little peaks, which at an early stage of sunrise resemble a chaplet of pearls.  The floor of Stofler is apparently very level, and in colour recalls the beautiful steel-grey tone of Plato seen under certain conditions.  I have noted several distinct little craters on its surface, mostly on the N.E. side; and on the E. side a triangular dark patch, close to the foot of the wall, very similar in size and appearance to those within Alphonsus.

FARADAY.—­A large ring-plain, about 35 miles in diameter, overlapping the S.W. border of Stofler; its own rampart being overlapped in its turn by two smaller ring-plains on the S.E., and by two still smaller formations (one of which is square-shaped) on the N.W.  The wall is broad and very massive on the E. and N.E., prominently terraced, and includes many brilliant little craters.  Schmidt shows a ridge and several craters in the interior.

LICETUS.—­An irregular formation, about 50 miles in maximum width, on the S. of Stofler, with the flanks of which it is connected by a coarse valley.  Neison points out that it consists of a group of ring-plains united into one, owing to the separating walls having been partially destroyed.  This seems to be clearly the case, if Licetus is examined under a low sun.  On the E. side of the N. portion of the formation, the wall rises to nearly 13,000 feet.

FERNELIUS.—­A ring-plain, about 30 miles in diameter, abutting on the N. wall of Stofler.  It is overlapped on the E. by another similar formation of about half its size.  There are many craters and depressions on the borders of both, and a large crater between the smaller enclosure and the N.E. outer slope of Stofler.  Schmidt shows eight craters on the floor of Fernelius.

NONIUS.—­A ring-plain, about 20 miles in diameter, abutting on the N. wall of Fernelius.  There is a prominent bright crater on the W. of it, and another on the N., from which a delicate valley runs towards the W. side of Walter.