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Again , Borrow tells us that ` a young moon gave a feeble light , ' as he mounted the coach to Amesbury , and on May 24 the moon _ was _ in its first quarter . -LCB- 0h -RCB- The planet Jupiter , too , he could have seen after 10 p.m. on June 3 , but his reference to the position of Ursus Major on the evening of his talk with Ursula is less satisfactory . ` On arriving at the mouth of the dingle , which fronted the east , I perceived , ' says Borrow , ` that Charles 's Wain was nearly opposite to it high above in the heavens , by which I knew that the night was tolerably well advanced . ' But on July 24 , as I learn , Charles 's Wain was in the N.W. , and at midnight or 1 a.m. lay nearly due north , and as low down in the sky as it could be . This , however , is perhaps to consider too closely . Indeed , the general accuracy of this part of Borrow 's story renders it probable that it was expanded from a brief diary kept at the time . It will be seen that the dates thus arrived at differ from those of Borrow 's biographer .