304 Remarkable Parhelia. 
Art. XIX.—Remarkable Parhelia, seen at Fort Howard, (Green 
Bay) Michigan Ter.; by Lt. R. E. Cuary. 
Communicated for this Journal. 
A very singular and interesting phenomenon was observed in the 
heavens at this place, (Fort Howard, Green Bay, M. T.) on the 
morning of the 27th of February last. It consisted of a large and 
brilliant halo around the sun, with two parhelia within the circumfe- 
rence at the extremitics of its horizontal diameter, but little inferior 
in brilliancy to the true sun; they were accompanied by luminous 
trains or tails opposite to the sun. Immediately above and beneath 
the sun in the circumference of the same circle, there were bright lu- 
minous spots of an elliptical form, less intense in brilliancy than the 
first, but of much greater magnitude. From the superior or more 
elevated spot, rays faintly colored, and slightly curved downwards, 
appeared to emanate, forming a small portion of an arc of a circle of 
less curvature than the halo. Another circle, the plane of which 
was horizontal, at right angles to, and of a greater diameter than, 
the first, with its center apparently in the zenith, completely surround- 
ed the heavens ; its circumference passed through the sun, and two 
mock suns, the latter being distinctly reflected in the opposite part 
of the heavens. 
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About 15° from the zenith, in the direction of the sun, there ap- 
peared two faintly luminous arcs of circles, nearly tangent to, and 
convex towards, each other, they were but a few degrees in extent. 
