The following is the description of the sun

HALOS AND PHARHELIA

This morning, bet[w]een the housrs of six and
nine oclock, the heavens exhibited a splen-
did and delightful appearance, of halos or
circles accompanied with parhelia or mock
suns. Clouds of a white & fleecy appearance
were at the time floating in the atmosphere,
but so thin as not to entirely obscure the blue
sky the wind blue vary gently from the west
by northwest. The cold being intense essp-
ecially for the time of year and small crysta-
ls of ice or snow were visible s floating in the air
The following diagram represents these beau-
tiful phenomena as they appeared about half
past seven oclock A.M. The magnitudes of the
circles given in the following decription may not
be exact as I was destitute of the proper inst
ruments for their accurate measurement.

[FIGURE cut out from newspaper]

1^st Let z be the zenith
directly under which
the observer is statio
ned looking to the
east let the outer
circle represent the
horizon's the tru
sun about 18°
above the horizon
surrounded by a
vary bright prism-
atic circle not
far from 45° de
in diameter; the lower
limb of which exten-
ded below the horizen
nearly 41–2°. Its breadth
and colours were ab[o]ut the
same as that of a common
rainbow nearly all the prismatic colours

The following is the description of the sun

HALOS AND PHARHELIA

This morning, between the hours of six and nine oclock, the heavens exhibited a splendid and delightful appearance, of halos or circles accompanied with parhelia or mock suns. Clouds of a white & fleecy appearance were at the time floating in the atmosphere, but so thin as not to entirely obscure the blue sky the wind blue vary gently from the west by northwest. The cold being intense esspecially for the time of year and small crystals of ice or snow were visible s floating in the air The following diagram represents these beautiful phenomena as they appeared about half past seven oclock A.M. The magnitudes of the circles given in the following decription may not be exact as I was destitute of the proper inst ruments for their accurate measurement.

1st Let Z be the zenith directly under which the observer is statio ned looking to the east let the outer circle represent the horizon's the tru sun about 18° above the horizon surrounded by a vary bright prismatic circle not far from 45° in diameter; the lower limb of which extended below the horizen nearly 41–2°. Its breadth and colours were about the same as that of a common rainbow nearly all the prismatic colours