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“ On Some Light Phenomena observed on Lake Winder- 
mere, November 22nd, 1885,” by Thomas Kay, Esq. 
On Sunday morning, the 22nd November, 1885, I was 
staying with a friend at Bellegrange, on the west shore of 
the upper arm of Lake Windermere, about 2 miles from the 
Ferry Hotel proceeding northward, and within a mile and a 
half of Wray Castle. There had been a sharp frost in the 
night, the ground was crisp and hard, the morning was cold, 
and there was a dead calm. At 8 a.m. the valley of the 
lake was filled with a dense fog, above which the sun was 
shining brightly. The hoar-frost glistened on the ivy, pen- 
dant from the tall trees, and silvered the richly-coloured 
bracken and dead leaves which carpeted the ground. 
About 10 a.m. I was upon the shore, and looking across 
the lake to a point which is about half-way between Low 
Wood and Troutbeck, I saw a brilliant broad band of 
coloured light on the surface of the lake, near the opposite 
shore, where the dark shadow of the mountain and the 
shore line is reflected in the water. It was forced into very 
bright relief by the strong contrast of colour, and was con- 
sequently as bright as the reflection of the moon in the 
water at night. It was a parti-coloured band of light 
stretching from the brighest part in the distance down to 
my feet, the bands of colour being lengthways, as a woven 
ribbon of striped satin. (See sketch, A.) 
The colours were those of the prismatic spectrum. It had 
the appearance of being the reflection of a rainbow, and yet 
