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Camelopardalis

one of the N. circumpolar constellations added by Hevelius in 1690. It is a large, irregularly shaped constellation, something like the animal, and is more than 40° in length, with its head close to the North Pole. It contains no stars brighter than the fourth magnitude. Camelopardalis borders upon Ursa Minor, Draco , Ursa Major, Lynx, Auriga, Perseus, Cassiopeia, and Cepheus. CAMELOT (kam'e-lot), a name applied in the mediæval romances to the splendid "City of Legions" which grew up out of the permanent quarters of the Second Augusta Legion at Caerleonupon-Usk, but was built earlier by the mythical Belinus. The name is familiar to readers of Tennyson.

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