Maunder, Annie S. D. (Annie Scot Dill), b. 1868, Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter), 1851-1928 · London, C.H. Kelly · leaf 155
at Algiers,of the eclipse of 1900, describes it thus : * The sky wasdeep purple, while over the sea was a strange light onthe horizon; a compromise between a thunderstormand a sunset. The colour faded from the sea and trees,a shouting and wailing arose from the square below, thelight was fading;… … 148 THE SUN AND MOON TOGETHER 149 streamers away into the purple. But when clouds hidethe eclipsed sun, then the weird effects, upon landscapeand seascape, of the sun darkened whilst it is yet day,are the only observations that can be made. Anastronomer writes of the cloudy eclipse in Lapland…
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