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THIS is not such an unusual phenomenon. It depends of course on the position of the observer as regards the sun, and his “coin of vantage,” viz. having a space below him. I have seen it several times in my life, and remember a beautiful illustration of it given by Mr. Bains, the artist who accompanied the traveller Chapman to the Victoria Falls on the Zambese. His painting was, and probably is, in the Library at Cape Town. He is represented as standing on a projecting rock overlooking the Falls, or perhaps I should say looking up the crevice into which the water falls, and in the centre of a glorious double circular rainbow. I have heard the picture much criticised and its accuracy doubted, but having had actual experience of such a sight, I always maintained its correctness.
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LAYARD, E. Circular Rainbow seen from Hill-top. Nature 30, 361 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030361b0
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