Mr . Baxter’s Defer iption of Halo's and Parhelia . 4- 
where, at the points of interfeflion, they each formed a lumi- 
nous appearance about the bulk of the fun, and fo like him 
when feen through a thick hazy Iky, that they might very eafily 
have been taken for him. (Mock funs or parhelia). Dire&ly 
oppolite to the fun was a luminous crofs, in the diape of a St. 
Andrew’s Crofs, cutting at the point of interle&ion the hori- 
zontal circle, where was formed another mock fun, like the 
other two mentioned above. The two lower limbs of the 
crofs appeared but faintly a little way below the circle, the 
two higher reached a good way above the circle towards the 
zenith very clear and bright. In this horizontal circle, directly 
half-way betwdxt the fun of the crofs and thofe at the ends of 
the fame circle, w r ere other two mock funs, fame kind and 
fze, one on each fide ; fo that in this horizontal circle were 
five mock funs, at equal didances from one another, and in 
the fame line the real fun, all at equal heights from the hori- 
zon. Belides thefe meteors, there w r as, very near the zenith, 
but a little more towards the circle of the real fun, a rainbow 
of very bright and beautiful colours, not an entire lemi-circle, 
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with the middle of the convex fide turned towards the fun, 
which lowered as the fun defeended. 
“ It was a little before two o’clock P.M. when I find obferved 
this phenomenon, and it continued in all its beauty and ludre 
till about half after two. 
“ The crofs went gradually off fird ; then the horizontal 
circle began to difappear in parts, while in others it w r as vifible ; 
then the three mock funs farthed from the fun, the two in the 
fun’s circle continuing longed ; the rainbow began to decreafe 
after thefe ; and, lad of all, the fun’s circle, but it was ob- 
fervable at three o’clock, or after it. 
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