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Sun Dogs,
Cumberland
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FIG. VI. explained in an ingenious Letter from a new
Corresppondent.
Mr URBAN,
AT six this morning, our air being replete with icy
particles, we observed, round the real sun, two halos,
represented in the figure by CGD and EFH, very strong and
rainbow-like; the border next the sun of the interior halo
was red, of the exterior violet, but the lower parts of them
the horizon intercepted. On each side of the real sun, and
of the same altitude, appear'd two parahelia, or mock suns,
thro' which the interior halo pass'd; on whose top, at G,
was a small part of a white circle, with luminous rays
darting from it, much resembling a radiated coronet. The
Northermost parhelion, A, had a long splendid tail,
comet-like, opposite to the sun, which, as we observ'd it
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