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REMARKS 



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clouds near the horizon, with a lively golci-yellow or orange ; it isi, 

 therefore, by no means extraordinary to fee, at fun-fetting, a. 

 <^reenifh Iky or cloud, and it may be obferved frequently in Europe.. 



But, as the rifmg and fetting fun caufes,. between and abbut the 

 tropics, the tinds of the fky and clouds to be infinitely brighter, 

 than any where elfe, it happens now and then, that all the appear- 



ances of th 



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fky and cloud 



are more ftriking and brilliant, and 



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therefore more noticed. I had an opportunity to obf( 



the 



year 



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774, April 



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in 9 



30' South latitude. 



at fun-fetting, a 



greater diflance were of an 



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beautiful green cloud y fome others at a 



olive-colour, and even part of the fky was tinged with a lively, de- 



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licate green. 



• Secondly y The refradion of ligkt through clouds and rains, caufes 

 a Rainbow oppofite to the fun; a phajnomenon which, however 

 beautiful and llriking, is fo common, and the manner of its form- 



fo well known, that 



requir 



here any particular 



notice : but I cannot pafs by in filence, that whilft we were going, 

 in 1773, from New Zeeland, the firll time, to O-Taheitee, I had- 

 an opportunity of obferving, fi'om June 7th to July 12 th, every ^ 

 morning conftantly,. a rainbow, or part of a rainbow, on the hori- 

 zon. Though this remark is but trivial, it proves, however, that 

 we had almoll daily fmall iliowers of rain, and that we paid parti- 



cular attention to every obje(5l which deferved obfervation.. 



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