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    FOUR EXTRA SUNS AND AN INVERTED RAINBOW

    A phenomenon was witnessed for two hours in southeastern England on the afternoon of Oct. 11, 1899. I give the account as described in several English papers.LDT 138.1

    In the London Daily Mail of Oct. 16, 1899, we read: “A correspondent, M. D., sends us the following description of an interesting celestial phenomenon which he and others witnessed at Tonbridge on the afternoon of Wednesday last:—LDT 138.2

    ” ‘Soon after two o’clock, a halo round the sun was observed, with brilliant mock suns east, west, and north. The southern one was below the point of our vision, hidden by the trees, while over the upper mock sun was an inverted rainbow, in strong prismatic colors. At four o’clock only one sun remained visible, of an intense white.’”LDT 138.3

    From the Kettering Daily Telegraph of Oct. 23, 1899, we quote: “A correspondent writes from Bushy, Herts, to the Spectator: ‘On the afternoon of Wednesday, October 11, at three o’clock, ... I observed what few of your readers, I believe, will have ever seen. Almost directly over the sun, and high up in the zenith, in a clear blue sky, was the portion of the arc of a rainbow. Its colors were vivid.... Several others, countrymen of Hertfordshire, were looking up at the same time, and I heard the words, “Never saw such a thing as that in my life.”’ “LDT 138.4

    In the London Echo of Oct. 23, 1899, is the following: “The singular rainbow phenomenon of October 11 seems to have been visible over a very wide area. Correspondents writing from Ipswich, Ventnor, and Bournemouth all bear testimony in the Spectator to having seen it. The Bournemouth gentleman saw ‘a highly respectable tradesman in a rather excited state, as he said he had just seen a thing he had never seen before in his life. A neighbor had called him into the open to see a rainbow which was upside down, reversed. I said, “What, concave instead of convex?” He said, “Yes, reversed like a cup.” It must have been about three o’clock when these men saw it.’”LDT 139.1

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