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WILL you permit me, through your columns, to tell Mr. Abbay that the phenomena—“ les rayons de crépuscule”—he refers to in his letter in NATURE, vol. xviii. p. 329, are of not unfrequent occurrence on the west coast of India, in the plains as well as the highlands. Moreover I can recollect being much struck with the appearance whilst travelling in Ireland in the autumn of 1863. The convergence of rays in the east, while the sun was setting, was then new and singular to me, but I have since often observed the phenomenon.
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PRINGLE, E. Physical Science for Artists . Nature 18, 356–357 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018356c0
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