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of the sun, was so brilliant as scarcely to be viewed with the 
naked eye, and appeared to be formed in a mixture of cir- 
rocumulative and cirrostrative clouds; the parhelion to the 
South of the sun was formed last; and both entirely disap- 
peared when the clouds passed off. These mock-suns were 
followed by a faint solar halo, two winds, the lower one from 
S.E. and the upper one from S.W., and frequent showers 
jn the day. Vivid lightning and distant thunder prevailed 
throughout the night. From 12 till 2 o’clock, after a heavy 
shower of rain, the warm flashes of lightning were awfully 
grand, particularly those in the northern part of the horizon, 
where the electric streams frequently shot up from the clouds 
3° or 4° in perpendicular and oblique directions. 
Sept. 9th. Ata quarter past 8 P.M. a coloured meteor with a 
short train descended almost perpendicularly from behind a 
large cloud, and appeared to fall in the western point of the 
horizon. A very stormy night followed, 
— 10th. At half past 7 A.M. a bright parhelion appeared 
to the North of, and 22° 40’ radius from, the sun; and at 
8 o’clock a perfect rainbow; also ézwo others, and a solar 
halo, in the course of the day. Between 7 and 8 P.M. two 
faint paraselence appeared, one on each side of the moon 
at the exterior edge of a large halo, on the top of which a 
small inverted are tended to create another paraselene: each 
of them was 22° 45’ distant from the moon, and situated in 
cirrostrative vapour. 
—— Ilth. Between S and 9 P.M. three coloured paraselenee 
appeared in cirrostrative beds of vapour, one on each side of 
the moon; the other at the top of a large halo that sur- 
rounded her, and all of them were nearly of the same radius 
as those last evening: after these rare pha@nomena had dis- 
, appeared, the moon was apparently encompassed by a close 
yellow corona, and a green circle 11° in diameter, followed 
in the night by heavy showers and a gale from S.W. : this 
change was previously indicated by thé sinking of the baro- 
meter in the afternoon. The 12th, 13th, and 14th, were 
distinguished by wind and rain. 
—— 18th: At 10 minutes past 8 P.M. a meteor with a spark- 
ling train appeared between the stars Alamak in Andromeda, 
and Algol in Medusa’s head; between that time and ten 
o’clock, nine other meteors were seen without trains, five 
towards the East, three to the South, and one ina Westerly 
direction. The heavenly concave and the Milky Way at 
this time appeared in their most refulgent splendour, thickly 
studded with stars, and the wind freshening. A gale sprung 
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