UGHT. 



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Pepper's Ghost is but a reflection from the surface of 

 unsilvered glass. His fixtures were made upon a large 

 scale, were costly, and not practicable in every place. 

 His reflectors were large sheets of glass about five feet 



broad and six feet high. The light was a powerful 

 lime light. Fig. 62 will give an idea of the conditions 

 employed last year in his traveling lectures. The front 

 of the stnge s s was heavily curtained, except a space 

 of a few feet in the middle of it, where there was a 

 recess opening back, and apparently to the back of the 

 stage c, which could be seen through a large plain glass 

 reflector g^ twelve or fifteen feet long and six feet high, 

 placed at an angle of about 45°. This glass is seldom 

 noticed unless one is looking for it. The lantern for 

 illuminating the ghost b is behind the curtain on the 



