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that one could absolutely say they enveloped the sun. Those commonly 
observed are only the summit of 
phere and clouds suspended in these flames; it would be impossible to 
Imagine anything else, as for example, that it might be some phenomena 
of diffraction or refraction. 
The clear graduation and distinct mingling of the peach blossom col- 
ored light with the white photosphere was of a character so distinct that 
it can never be mistaken by any satus of interference, of refraction, 
or any illusion whatever. I do not doubt that it really appertains to 
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curved and branched like the horns of a stag, at the upper part. 
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only Say that the light was strong enough to. enable one to distinguish 
“nall objects, and to read without difficulty ordinary books, and without 
