174 G. Jones on the Zodiacal Light. 
base at the horizon, goes on still increasing in force below the 
horizon, towards the direct line between our eye and the sun; 
and that, consequently, if the Zodiacal Light is not a striking 
object in a total eclipse, stretching off from each side of the sun, 
this fact is not more against the hypothesis of a ring around our 
earth, than against a ring around the sun or in any other place. 
As respects such eclipses, however, if the observer of them is in 
a high latitude, north or south, he will, except at only one por- 
tion of the year, have the ecliptic at a very low angle with his 
horizon (even, under the best circumstances, not at a high angle,) 
and therefore cannot expect to have a good exhibition of the 
Zodiacal Light at the time of eclipse. There was, however, an 
observation made in Peru, during a total eclipse, on the 30th 
of November, 1853, from which we might expect something of 
a more decisive character. The observer was Prof. Carlos Mo 
of the Observatory of Santiago, who at the suggestion of Lieu- 
tenant Gillis, U.S. N., was sent to Peru, by the government of 
Chili, for that purpose, and who afterwards made a highly inter- 
esting and valuable report to the Minister of Public Instruction, 
with a sketch of the heavens as they appeared at the time of the | 
total obscuration of the sun. His place of observation was in 
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these last, one was in an upward direction, and inclined about 
20° S of E, and according to estimation, its upward extent is as 
large as a diameter of the moon; the other extended from the 
Ying downward, not diametrically opposite to the former, but m- 
clined about 10° N of W, and was a little shorter than the other- 
he appearance of these two rays was much like that of a comet, 
Ss. 
annexed sketch, in which I have endeavored to represent this 
ring [corona] as nearly like the original as possible.’ 7 
It should be added to this that Mr. Moesta’s drawing was from 
a view through the telescope; I have, myself, always found the 
