The star’s Arabic name derives from a word meaning “the groin” of the celestial Bear that plods silently around the north celestial pole (the name mistakenly drawn from Merak, in the Dipper’s bowl).
But like one walking alone and in the dark, I resolved to proceed so slowly and with such circumspection, that if I did not advance far, I would at least guard against falling.
And, finally, although such be the ground of our opinions, I remarked that a plurality of suffrages is no guarantee of truth where it is at all of difficult discovery, as in such cases it is much more likely that it will be found by one than by many.