Mr. barker’s Regijler of the Weather , &c. 24 < 
ground got quite dry in many places, and the wheat, which 
has lain a great while in the ground, comes up well at laft. 
An account of an uncommon circle feen about the Moon. 
November 17, 1782, between ten and eleven at night, there 
was a remarkable corona about the moon, fuch as I do not 
remember to have taken notice of before, at lead: not to that 
degree. 
It is common, when the moon appears through a thin cloud, 
to fee a bright place round it, bounded by a yellowifh red circle 
at a little diflance, which feems to me to be not always of the 
fame diameter. At this time the clear part of the iky was very 
clear ; but there were many thin clouds, and as they paifed 
over the moon from the north, that ufual circle appeared 
much ftronger than common, and I fhould think of lefs dia- 
meter : but the remarkable part was, that round that circle, 
another rainbow-coloured one was feen; the blue, I think, was 
on the outfide, and the red terminated with the ufual red circle. 
The colours were far more diftinfl and bright than any halo, 
and not a third part of that diameter. It was brighter or 
fainter, according as different parts of the clouds paft over the 
moon ; and when the clear iky came over it, the corona very 
nearly, if not wholly, difappeared. 
I have fince feen fome fmall refemblance of the fame thing, 
but fo faint I ihould hardly have taken notice of it, if I had 
not feen it fo much ifronger at that time. 
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