Defer ipt ion of a Glory, 463 



Description of a Glory i ^^ John Haygarth, 

 M. B. F. R. S. Lond. F. R. S. and R. M. S. 



Edinb. and Fellow of the American Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences. Communicated by Dr, 

 Fercival. 



READ MARCH I5, I789. 



ON the thirteenth of February 1780, as I 

 was returning to Chefter, and afcending, 

 at Rhealt, the mountain, which forms the 

 eaftern boundary of the Vale of Clwyd, I ob- 

 ferved a rare and curious phsenomenon. My 

 ingenious friend Mr. Falconer, has given, from 

 my defcription, an exaft reprefentation of it, in 

 a drawing which accompanies this paper. (See 

 plate IV.) 



In the road above me, I was ftruck with the 

 peculiar appearance of a very white fhining 

 cloud, that lay remarkably clofe to the ground. 

 The fun was nearly fetting, but fhone extremely 

 bright. I walked up to the cloud, and my fha- 

 dow was projected into it ; when, a very unex- 

 pected, and beautiful fcene was prefented to my 

 view. The head of my Ihadow (fee plate IV.) 

 was furrounded, at fome diftance, by a circle of 

 various colours, whofe centre appeared to be 

 near the fituation of the eye, and whofe cir- 

 cumference 



