590 Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 
Extract of a Letter from R. V. Yates, Esq.. of Toateth Park, 
Liverpool, dated Edinburgh, May 15, 1836. 
«‘ We have just enjoyed a most glorious sight, an annular eclipse. 
The morning arose cloudy, and gave little promise ; but about 10 
the clouds cleared off, and during the whole period of the eclipse 
nothing interfered with our seeing it perfectly. It was curious to 
watch it when it was just going to become annular, the light broke 
in so rapidly. It remained annular only a very short time, perhaps 
between 5 and 10 minutes.” 
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In a garden near Birmingham the Gentians partially closed their 
flowers during the eclipse, and then opened again, 
The Rev. James Yates, by whom the above was communicated 
to us, has obligingly directed our attention to the description of an 
Annular Eclipse in the Norwegian Account of Haco’s Expedition 
against Scotland, which we transcribe from p. 44 of that work. 
pa er Hacon konongr 1a i Régnvalzyagi dré myrkr mikit 4 sdlina, 
sva at litill hringr var biartur um sdlina utan*, ok hellt pri nockora 
stund dags. 
While King Haco lay in Ronaldsvo a great darkness drew over the 
sun, so that only a little ring was bright round about the sun, and it 
continued so for some time. 
* Though relating to inquiries of a different class, I am tempted to note the 
Islandic expression ‘‘wm solina utan,’’ as a remarkable illustration of the real 
origin of our compound preposition Azour, ymbucan,—the noun being here in- 
terposed between the two prepositions. See my Note on the complicated mistakes 
in which the history of this word had been involved by Spelman, Skinner, and 
Tooke, subjoined to the 8yo. edition of the Diversions of Purley, 1829, vol. i. 
p. viiii—R, Taycor. 
