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IV. An Account of four Mock-Suns, feen at 
Kenfington, March \fl 1726 -7, By Mr. 
George Whifton. 
O N Wednefday, March ift, x 7 26-7, walking in a 
Garden at Kenjingten, about a quarter after Ten, 
'I happen’d to obferve the following Appearance, which 
being very rare with regard to the whole of it, 
feems to deferve that Tome Account iliould be given of 
it. 
I at firft took notice of the Halo about the Sun, 
V. M. (Fig. z ) wnth its ufual Circumhances, which 
are pretty frequent ; the upper part of it was very 
luminous, having a confus’d mixture of the kainbow'- 
Colours in it, and being touch'd at the Vertex with 
the two other Curvatures, OVR,NVT, in the Situa- 
tion which the Scheme fliew^s j tho’ the latter Arch 
NVT, did not appear till fome time after. The Bot- 
tom part of it alfoat M, which appeard a little above ^ 
the Horizon, had fomething of the fame nature, but 
not in lb great a degree. 
I preceiv’d, prefently likewife, the two Parhelia, 
A, B; whofe Diameters were pretty large, and whole 
Brightnefs and Colour was pretty much as the upper 
part of the Halo. 
As the Halo was at that time not quite perfed, but 
had fome parts interrupted, I thought that the tw^o 
Parhelia were in the Circumference of its Circle, as 
ufual ; but after about a quarter of an hour, I direcHy 
obferv’d the Halo to pafs between the Parhelion A, and 
the true -Sun j and I have no reafon to doubt the 
fame 
