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II. Observations on a ftngular Phenomenon called the Spectre of 

 the Broken. By J. L. JORDAN. From Gottingifche3 

 Journal der Naturwiffenfchaften, by J. F. GMEL1N. 

 Vol. I. Part III. 1798. 



X ' the courfe of my repeated tours through the Harz*, I 

 aicci.ded the Broken twelve different times ; but I had the 

 good fortune only twice (both times about Whitfuntide) to 

 fee that 2tmolpheric phenomenon called the Spectre of the 

 Broken, which appears to me worthy of particular attention, 

 ,as it muff, no doubt, be obferved on other hi^h mountains 

 which have a frtuation favourable for producing it. 



1 lie fint time I was deceived by this extraordinary phe- 

 nomenon 1 had clambered up to the fummit of the Broken, 

 very early in the morning, in order to wait there for the in- 

 expreiubly beautiful vitwof the fun riling in the eaft. The 

 heav< :rs were already flreaked with red ; the fun was juft 

 appearing above the horizon in full majefty, and the moft 

 pcifccf. ferenity prevailed throughout the furnpunding coun- 

 try, when the other Harz mountains iii the fouth-weft, to- 

 wards the Worm mountains, &c. lying under the Broken, 

 began to be covered by thick clouds. Afcending at that 

 moment the granite rocks called the Teufelskanzel, there ap- 

 peared before me, though at a great diftance, towards the 

 Worm mountains and the Achtermannshohe, the gigantic 

 figure of a man, as if Handing on a large pedeftal. But 

 fcarcely had i discovered it when it began to difappear ; the 

 clouds funk down fpeedily and expanded, and I faw the 

 phenomenon no more. 



'I he fecond rime, however, I faw this fpe£r.re fomewhat 

 more diftincl'y, a little below the fummit of the Broken, and 

 near the Heinrichshohe, as I was looking at the fun rifing 

 about four o'clock in the morning. The weather was ra- 

 ther tempeftuous j the fky towards the level country was 



* The Harz mountains are fituated in Hanover. 



pretty 



