464 De/cription of a Glory. 



cumference extended to the fhoulders. The cir- 

 cle was complete, except what the fhadow of 

 my body intercepted. It exhibited the moft 

 vivid colours, red being outermoft : as far as 

 can be recolledled, all the colours appeared in 

 the fame order and proportion that the rain-bow 

 prefents to our view. It refeoibled, very exadly, 

 what in pictures is termed a glory\ around the 

 head of our Saviour, and of faints : not indeed 

 that luminous radiance, which is painted clofe 

 to the head, but an arch of concentric colours, 

 which is placed feparate and diftindl from it. As I 

 walked forward, this glory approached or retired, 

 jufl: as the inequality of the ground fhortened 

 or lengthened my fhadow. The cloud being 

 fometimes in a fmall valley below me, fome- 

 times on the fame level, or on higher ground, 

 the variation of the (hadow, and glory became 

 extremely ftriking and fingular. 



To add to the beauty of the fcene, there ap- 

 peared, at a confiderable diftance, to the right 

 and left, the arches of a white fliining bow. 

 Thefe arches were in the form of, and broader 

 than a rain-bow : but were not completely joined 

 into a femicircle above, on account of the 

 lliallownefs of the cloud. When my chaife came 

 up, I could obferve no peculiar appearance 

 round the Ihadows of the poftillion, horfes, or 

 chaife. But the poftillion was alarmed, to an 

 uncommon degree, by this very fingular appari- 

 tion : 



