62 " Parhelia. 



ance when about five degrees above the horizon was somewhat 

 hke the following : — 



Fig. 1. 



On Thursday the 16th of January, a day which was generally 

 noted as one of the coldest ever known in this country, (the ther- 

 mometer being at Albany — 26°, at Schoharie — 36°, at Utica 

 — 21°. at Syracuse —14°, at this place —10°, and at Pranconia 

 in New Hampshire —41°,) occurred another beautiful spectacle 

 of this kind. When the sun was about a quarter of an hour high 

 the appearance was as below. 



Fig. 2. 



The colors of the parhelia in this case rivalled the most splen- 

 did appearance of the rainbow, and retained them until the sun 

 sunk below the horizon. At that time, what may be called the 

 upper limbs of the parhelia seemed to stand like beautiful columns 

 of colored hght on the base of the horizon. 



Fig. 3., 



The next morning, the thermometer being at —6°, the moon 

 which set at about 6 o'clock, for more than an hour before going 

 down, exhibited the most perfect and splendid paraselene ever 

 witnessed in this place. The appearance was as seen in Fig. 3 ; 



