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perceived the sky to be very light, insomuch that I 
could discern the buildings and other objects. The 
wind blew in fresh gales from W.S.W., barome- 
ter below ‘tempest,’ and thermometer about 41°. 
I have only once seen this luminosity before.” 
Loch Scavig appears destined to become cele- 
brated for luminous phenomena. Besides the 
phosphorescent cloud seen there by General Sa- 
bine, my friend Mr. T. K. Edwards. tells me of 
another curious case of a luminous meteor seen 
in the same locality. It was in the month of 
September, 1852 or 1853, and the phenomenon 
was observed about eight o’clock in the evening. 
He was being rowed by four stout men from 
Torrin, in the Isle of Skye, to one of the oppo- 
site shores. On entering Loch Scavig the boat 
containing Mr. Edwards, his friend Mr. Raymond, 
four boatmen, and a guide, steered across the 
little bay situated on their right, when a light 
was distinctly seen at a great distance to the sea- 
ward. At first it appeared like the light from the 
cabin window of a steamboat being near to the 
surface of the water, and moving with great ra- 
pidity towards them. ‘The four men at the oars 
noticed it with evident alarm, and spoke hurriedly 
to each other in Gaelic. When the guide was 
asked what they were talking about, he answered, 
«‘ About yon light; it’s no canny thing, neither.” 
The rapidity with which the ight moved, and its 
