ECLIPSES. 



moon was decidedly reddish purple at the beginning of totality, 

 but the reddish tinge disappeared before its termination, and the 

 disc assumed a dull purple colour. A bright glow, like that of 

 twilight, indicated the position where the sun was about to 

 emerge, and three or four seconds later the beads again formed, 

 this time instantaneously, but less numerous, and even more 

 irregular, than before. In five seconds more the sun reappeared 

 as a very fine crescent on the sudden extinction of the beads." 



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