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“LES rayons de crépuscule” seem not to be of uncommon occurrence. They presented a most superb spectacle at this place last Sunday evening. The weather had been extremely warm all day and the mountains were seen through a thick haze. At sunset masses of dark clouds, fringed with gold, lay along the horizon to the west, while beyond them the sky was of a beautiful pink. As the sun sank lower many bands of pink appeared, stretching from the west entirely across to the east, appearing broader and paler, of course, near the zenith. They changed gradually in width, position, and number for perhaps half-an-hour, and then disappeared. Their changeableness indicated that they were due to clouds near the horizon.
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CARHART, H. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 18, 540 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018540c0
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