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Gentleman's Magazine 1753 p.370

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Sun Dogs, Kirkby Lonsdale


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Mr URBAN,
ON May 24, about half an hour after six o'clock in the morning, the air being replete with watery particles of a pale duskish colour, and the atmosphere seeming to be equally spread with a very fine lamina, smooth and evenly suspended, there appeared a coloured halo above the sun (see the above representation) very fair and distinct, for a considerable time. The inner half of the semicircle was of a reddish, and the outer half of a light yellow colour, the bright spots on either side the sun terminated in far distant points, like the shadow of the earth in an eclipse of the moon; the corona, or inverted circle, was not so visible as one I observed a few years since: the bright spots disappeared first, then the vivid colour of the iris faded by degrees, extending itself to a stupendous arch before it totally disappeared.
We have had very hot droughty weather, and still continues ever since the appearance of the halo. - The barometer unusually low, rising and falling almost every day a little, but low in the main from what might be expected this hot season.
Yours, &c. S. PARROT.
Near Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland, June 5.
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