ECLIPSES. 



During the totality, the light seemed like that of an evening in 

 August at an hour and a half after sunset. 



32. Messrs. Stephenson and Andrews, at Fredrichsvaarn, saw 

 Baily's beads both before and after the total obscuration. The 



Fig. 14. 



Fi*. 15. 



crescent, before disappearing, was seen as a fine thread of light, 

 which broke up into fragments, and when it re-appeared, it gave 

 the idea of globules of mercury rushing amongst each other along 

 the edge of the moon. In a second or two after the disap- 

 pearance of the crescent, a rose-coloured flame shot out from the 

 limb of the moon, which in form resembled a sickle (see fig. 15). 

 It increased rapidly, and then two other rose-coloured promi- 

 nences, above and below it, started out, differing in shape, but 

 evidently of the same character. Besides these, there were, 

 as well between them as elsewhere, around the moon's edge other 

 lurid points and other indistinct lines. The height of the prin- 

 cipal prominence was estimated at about the 

 twentieth of the moon's diameter, that is, 

 fe^^. about 1|'. The chief prominences looked like 



^T;?;--^^* burning volcanoes, and the lurid points and 



^ ^^ lines reminded the observers of dull streams of 

 ^ B? cooling lava. 



B 33. Mr. Lassell, at Trollhattan Falls, having 

 heard the red prominences seen in former total 

 :,; eclipses described as faint appearances, saw 

 ^f with astonishment around the dark disc of the 



! ; ,^K^ moon, after the commencement of total obscura- 

 ~ Vx tion, prominences of the most brilliant lake 



!BP^ colour, a splendid pink, quite defined and 



hard, fig. 16. They appeared not to be abso- 

 lutely quiescent. The observer judged from their appearance that 

 they belonged to the sun, and not to the moon. 

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