Remarkable Atmospheric Appearances. “S27 _ 
ed under any of the circles, obscured them until they were 
gone by. There appeared also on this day a prismatic oval 
at D D, but less brilliant than the external one; the day 
was less bright and the circles were less splendid. It was 
seen on this day from 9 o’clock in the forenoon until 1 in the 
evening, at which time the intersection was to the east of 
north; in-all other respects the phenomena were the same as 
on the 19th. 
In connexion with the above, it may be proper to add, that 
the weather this year has been rather uncommon in this neigh- 
borhood. Our winter was very dry and warm, and the sum- 
mer more hot than any person in this part of the country re- 
collects ever to have felt.* We have not had sufficient rain 
since the 20th of April, for transplanting, and not so much 
since the last of June as would lay the dust; and last night 
we had a frost sufficiently severe to kill some cucumbers we 
had kept alive by watering. About five days previous to the 
19th, the wind shifted to the north-east, and remained there 
until after the 26th. 
I have been thus particular in describing the weather, to 
To CHARLES MERIWETHER, Esa. 
New-York, March 13, 1825. 
Dear Sirr,— 3 
Your letter describing the met gical phenomena, of 
August 19, and the succeeding Friday, as they were observed 
in your part of Kentucky, reached me, in due course, through 
the post-office. 
I suppose they must be classed among the halos and par- 
helions ; though it is my opinion a better theory is wanted 
than we yet possess, for their solution. : 
To preserve from oblivion, an atmospherical appearance 
of a somewhat similar nature, I described 0 —— - - 
Medical Repository, vol. V. pp. 210-11, the three Falliho'' " 
which appeared at once, on the 17th October, 1801, and 
*Haying had my thermometer broken, I am not able to gives the degrees. 
J 
