198 Total Eclipse of August 7, 1869. 



the solar disk, looking like the straight edge of a saw, 

 whose teeth were worn to bluntness. The times of first 

 and second contact with each of the several nuclei of the 

 solar spots were recorded by chronograph. 



The instant I saw those lunar mountains, the thought 

 occurred to me, that if, as is generally supposed, Bailey's 

 beads are caused by the sun being seen between them, 

 then they ought to be .seen more conspicuously in that 

 vicinity, and I found by observation that my conjecture 

 was fully realized. I recorded by chronograph the time 

 of their first appearance and end. In appearance they 

 bore but little resemblance to the illustrations in the books. 



At 5h. 3m. a naked-eye observer came and announced 

 the appearance of Saturn, and at 5h. 7m. the appearance 

 of Venus. 



A short time before the appearance of Bailey's beads 

 I saw that never to be forgotten protuberance sitting in 

 queenly beauty on the crest of the sun. The color was 

 much brighter, the size much larger, and altogether much 

 more conspicuous than any I expected to see. In fact, I 

 was so captivated with its wonderful unexpected beauties, 

 as to amount to a perfect fascination. So tenaciously 

 was my eye riveted to it, that my observations on Bailey's 

 beads were not as good as. I would have been pleased to 

 have had them. At the instant of totality, seven or eight 

 protuberances of indescribable beauty and splendor were 

 seen, all but one or two, being between 10° and 180°. At 

 the first attempt to record them, a mishap occurred which 

 for a time seriously disturbed my equanimity. My re- 

 cording pencil was partly encased in a brass tube, which 

 when inserted the spring was held by friction, but a 

 two hours exposure to the hot sun so expanded the brass 

 and contracted the wood, that at the first attempt to insert 

 it, the wood was forced from the tube and lost in the grass. 

 I had another on a shelf near by, which I must have 



