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II. A Description of some Remarkable Effects of UNEQUAL RE- 

 FRACTION, observed at Bridlington Quay, in the Summer of 

 1826. By the Reverend W. SCOBESBY, F. R. S. S. Lond. 

 & Edin. M. W. S., and Corresponding Member of the In- 

 stitute of France. 



(Read January 22. 1827. ) 



IN the session of 1820-21, I had the honour of communicating 

 to the Royal Society, a description of some remarkable atmo- 

 spheric refractions observed in the Greenland Sea. Since that 

 period, additional opportunities for observation^ under circum- 

 stances peculiarly favourable, afforded a great number of other 

 examples of a similar kind, along with some still more sin- 

 gular. Among these, the most extraordinary was the invert- 

 ed image of a ship, which appeared in the lower part of the at- 

 mosphere, so distinctly and beautifully defined, that I could 

 venture to pronounce it to be the representation of my father's 

 ship, as, indeed, it proved to be, though we were then distant from 

 each other about 28 miles, and some leagues beyond the limit of 

 direct vision. But an account of the principal* of these extraor- 

 dinary appearances is already before the puplic, and I merely al- 

 lude to them, in consequence of their similarity to the refrac- 

 tions I have now to describe, that occurred upon our own 

 coasts. 



These phenomena occurred during the last summer about 

 Bridlington Bay, and were seen from my residence at Bridling- 

 ton Quay. 



I shall first describe the appearance of the shipping in the 

 Bay, as represented in Plate II. Fig. 5. 



* Voyage to Greenland in the Summer of 1822. 



