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THE following notices of anthelia may be interesting to the readers of NATURE. Frances Kidley Havergal thus described a sunset on the Faulhorn: “At one juncture a cloud stood still, apparently about two hundred yards off, and we each saw our own shadow gigantically reflected on it, surrounded by a complete rainbow arch, a full circle of bright prismatic colours, a transfiguration of our own shadows almost startling; each, moreover, seeing only their own glorification” (“Swiss Letters and Alpine Poems”).
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GEOGHEGAN, E. A Shadow and a Halo. Nature 38, 619 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038619b0
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