However, this is not the place to enter on speculations of this sort; I return therefore to the business we have more immediately in hand.
Towards the east is the square of Pegasus low down towards the horizon.
Towards the south is Scorpio, distinguished by the red and brilliant Antares, and by a train of conspicuous stars.

Towards the west is Bootes, his leading brilliant--the ruddy Arcturus--lying somewhat nearer the horizon than the zenith, and slightly south of west.

Bootes as a constellation is easily found if we remember that he is delineated as chasing away the Greater Bear.

Thus at present he is seen in a slightly inclined position, his head (marked by the third-magnitude star [beta]) lying due west, some thirty degrees from the zenith.

It has always appeared to me, by the way, that Bootes originally had nobler proportions than astronomers now assign to him.