List, C, Hall, T. G. (Thomas Grainger), 1803-1881 · Philadelphia : Thomas Cowperthwait & Co. and Carey & Hart · leaf 127
e the horizonwith its point generally directed to some part ofthe zodiac. Though the zodiacal light is often seen very dis-tinctly in Europe and this country, its appearanceis much more striking near the equator, where theatmosphere is less misty and the twilight of shorterduration. He who has… … Zodiacal Light. a portion of the unvarying length of the tropicalnight. I have seen it occasionally more intenselyluminous than the Milky Way in Sagittarius ; andthat not only in the thin and dry atmosphere ofthe summits of the Andes, at the height of twelveor fourteen thousand feet above the level…
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