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perceived the sky to be very light, insomuch that I 

 could discern the buildings and other objects. The 

 wind blew in fresh gales from W.S.W., barome- 

 ter below ' tempest/ and thermometer about 41. 

 I have only once seen this luminosity before." 



Loch Scavig appears destined to become cele- 

 brated for luminous phenomena. Besides the 

 phosphorescent cloud seen there by General Sa- 

 bine, my friend Mr. T. K. Edwards tells me of 

 another curious case of a luminous meteor seen 

 in the same locality. It was in the month of 

 September, 1852 or 1853, and the phenomenon 

 was observed about eight o' clock in the evening. 

 He was being rowed by four stout men from 

 Torrin, in the Isle of Skye, to one of the oppo- 

 site shores. On entering Loch Scavig the boat 

 containing Mr. Edwards, his friend Mr. Raymond, 

 four boatmen, and a guide, steered across the 

 little bay situated on their right, when a light 

 was distinctly seen at a great distance to the sea- 

 ward. At first it appeared like the light from the 

 cabin window of a steamboat being near to the 

 surface of the water, and moving with great ra- 

 pidity towards them. The four men at the oars 

 noticed it with evident alarm, and spoke hurriedly 

 to each other in Gaelic. When the guide was 

 asked what they were talking about, he answered, 

 " About yon light ; it's no canny thing, neither." 

 The rapidity with which the light moved, and its 



