HE cluster of stars called the Constellation of the Ram was so named by

the Greeks,

from the old

fable of the

Golden Fleece.

The ancients believed that far away in the land of Colch's the fleece

of this ram was hung upon a

ee guarded by a dragon. Jason went in search of it a ship called the "Argo," and, being helped by the daughter of the king of the island, the beautiful Medea,