62 Parhelia. 
ance when about five degrees above the horizon was somewhat 
like the following :— 
Fig. 1. 
On Thursday the 16th of January, a day which was generally 
noted as one of the coldest ever known in this country, (the ther- 
mometer being at Albany -- 26°, at Schoharie —36°, at Utica 
— 21°, at Syracuse — 14°, at this place —10°, and at Franconia 
in New Hampshire — 41°,) occurred another beautiful spectacle 
of this kind. When the sun was about a quarter of an hour high 
the appearance was as below. 
The colors of the parhelia in this case rivalled the most splen- 
did appearance of the rainbow, and retained them until the sun 
sunk below the horizon. At that time, what may ‘be called the 
upper limbs of the parhelia seemed to stand like beautiful columns 
of colored light on the base of the horizon. 
Fig. 3. 
The next morning, the thermometer being at — 6°, the moon 
which set at about 6 o’clock, for more than an hour before going 
down, exhibited the most perfect and splendid paraselene ever 
witnessed in this place. The appearance was as seen in Fig. 3; 
