234 Obfervations on aftngular Phenomenon*. 



by moving my arm towards my head, and the coloflal figure 



did the fame. 



" The pleafure which I felt on this difcovery can hardly be 

 defcribed ; for I had already walked many a weary ftep in 

 the hopes of feeing this fhadowy image, without being able 

 to gratify my curiofity. I immediately made another move- 

 ment by bending my body, and the colofTal figure before me 

 repeated it. I was defirous of doing the fame thing once 

 more — but my coloflus had vanished. I remained in the 

 fame pofition, waiting to fee whether it would return, and 

 in a few minutes it again made its appearance on the 

 Achtermannshbhe. I paid my refpects to it a fecond time, 

 and it did the fame to me. I then called the landlord of the 

 Broken -, and having both taken the fame pofition which I had 

 taken alone, we looked towards the Achtermannshbhe, but 

 faw nothing. We had not, however, flood long, when two 

 fuch coloffal figures were formed over the above eminence, 

 which repeated our compliments by bending their bodies as 

 we did ; after which they vanifhed. We retained our 

 pofition \ kept our eyes fixed on the fame fpot, and in a 

 little the two figures again flood before us, and were joined 

 by a third. Every movement that we made by bending our 

 bodies thefe figures imitated — but with this difference, that 

 the phenomenon was fometimes weak and faint, fometimes 

 ftrong and well defined. Having thus had an opportunity 

 of difcovering the whole fecret of this phenomenon, I can 

 give the following information to fuch of my readers as may 

 be defirous of feeing it themfelves. When the rifing fun, 

 and according to analogy the cafe will be the fame at the 

 letting fun, throws his rays over the Broken upon the body 

 of a man flanding oppofite to fine light clouds floating 

 around ov hovering pafl him, he needs only fix his eyes 

 fledfaftly upon them, and, in all probability, he will fee the 

 fmgular fpeclacle of his own fhadow extending to the length 

 of five or fix hundred feet, at the diflance of about two 



miles 



