RAMSDEN.—­This ring-plain, 12 miles in diameter, derives its importance from the remarkable rill-system with which it is so closely associated.  Its border, about 1800 feet on the W. above the outside surface, is slightly terraced within on the E., where there is an unrecorded bright crater on the slope.  The two principal clefts on the S. originate among the hills E. of Capuanus.  The more easterly begins at a crater on the N. edge of these objects, and runs N. to the E. side of Ramsden; the other originates at a larger crater, and proceeds in a N. direction up to a bright little mountain S.W. of Ramsden; when, swerving to the N.E., it ends at the W. wall of this formation.  This mountain is a centre or node from which three other more delicate branches radiate.  On the N., three of the shortest clefts pertaining to the system are easily traceable from neighbouring mountains up to the N. wall, which they apparently partially cut through.  The E. pair have a common origin, but open out as they approach the border of Ramsden.

VITELLO.—­A very peculiar ring-plain, 28 miles in diameter, on the S. side of the Mare Humorum, remarkable for having another nearly concentric ring-plain, of considerably less altitude within it, and a large bright central boss, overlooking the inner wall, 1700 feet in height.  The outer wall is somewhat irregular, and is broken by gaps and valleys on the S. and N.W.  It rises on the E. about 5000 feet above the Mare, but only about 2000 above the interior, which includes a crater on its N. side, and some low ridges.

HAINZEL.—­This remarkable formation, which is about 55 miles in greatest length, but is hardly half so broad, derives its abnormal shape from the partial coalescence of two nearly equal ring-plains, the walls of both being very lofty,—­more than 10,000 feet.  It ought to be observed under a morning sun when the floor is about half illuminated.  At this phase the extension of the broad bright terraced E. border across a portion of the interior is very apparent, and the true structural character of the formation clearly revealed.  The floor abounds in detail, among which, on the S., are some large craters and a bright longitudinal ridge.  Hainzel is flanked on the W. and S.W. by a broad plateau, W. of which stand two ring-plains about 15 miles in diameter, both having prominent central mountains and bright interiors.

WILHELM I.—­A large irregular formation, about 50 miles across, S.E. of Heinsius, with walls varying very considerably in height, rising more than 11,000 feet on the E., but only about 7000 feet on the opposite side.  The border is everywhere crowded with depressions, large and small.  Three ring-plains, not less than 6 miles in diameter, stand upon the S. wall, the most westerly overlapping its shallower neighbour on the E., which projects beyond the wall on to the floor.  The interior has a very rugged and uneven surface, upon the N. side of which are two very distinct craters, and a short crater-row on the W. of them.  It is traversed from W. to E. by three bright streaks from Tycho, two on the N. being very prominent under a high light.