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under more favorable circumstances, in regard to the features of this 
beautiful and rare phenomenon. The bright point observed by Lt. Ashe 
was white and not ruddy. The expedition are unhappily unable to bear 
any testimony in regard to the roseate clouds which have been so often 
seen during total eclipses upon the moon’s border. This has been a 
subject of great regret, the more so because the corona which was lost 
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clouds. Only two of the observers attempted, in fact, to fix the exact 
book. It was not necessary to bring the book nearer to the eye ne 
usual. 
The pallor or ghastly appearance which has been remarked at such 
moments in the human countenance by former observers, did not strike 
The instruments employed in the astronomical observations, were 4 
thirty-inch transit by Fitz, a fifty-one inch Fraunhéfer achromatic be- 
longing to Princeton College, a forty-two inch by the same maker i 
