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and life ; everything wore a mournful aspect, but the faces 

 and appearance of my companions were not so changed as I 

 had been led to expect, and the cadaverous hue which, judg- 

 ing from descriptions by former observers I thought they 

 would assume, was not apparent, although the face was pale 

 and the uncertain light caused a somewhat altered appear- 

 ance. 



Objects in the distance were pretty distinctly visible, but, 

 of course, wore an unaccustomed and indescribable aspect 

 from the various and constantly changing hues which fell 

 upon them ; objects in detail, as to colour and outline, ap- 

 peared much the same as usual ; the effects of short shadows 

 from them, and the play of colours upon walls, &c., I did not 

 observe, but that moment was perhaps past ; the horizon from 

 the south to west was tolerably clear over the sea and Danish 

 land, but to the north and east was very dark and brown 

 with tints of orange, and here and there violet. 



Variegated tints and effects of Light. — The variegated 

 tints seemed to be most predominant to the south and west, 

 when the boundary line must be supposed to have been 

 passing ; on the other hand, the darker hues prevailed to 

 the north and east ; it appears that the tinted beads, which 

 will be subsequently mentioned, were best seen by observers 

 upon the southern boundary and its vicinity, for a few miles 

 on each side ; this naturally leads to the idea that there is 

 a connection between the two, and that the prismatic rays 

 emanating from the beads fall upon that part of the earth 

 from which the latter are best visible ; this hypothesis is 

 strengthened by the fact that the same vibrating or rolling 

 motion, which is observable in the beads, is also noticed in 

 the tints which fall upon the clouds and landscape below. 



As my eye had been directed towards the sun until his last 

 ray had vanished, I did not see the shadow sweep the earth, 

 as it was already over and around us. 



The mountains to the north, called the Koll, distant about 

 eighteen English miles, were about this moment pretty dis- 

 tinctly visible, but would not have been so, perhaps, had I not 

 known their exact position, besides, the horizon in that direc- 

 tion was assuming an orange tint, and getting lighter from 



