Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 166
Messina called stho Fata-Morgana, belongs to the same class ofoptical phenomena. One of the most interesting cases on recordwas witnessed by Capt. Scoresby, in the Arctic sea. While nav-igating the Greenland sea on the 28th of June, 1820, he observedabout eighteen or nineteen sail of ships at the… … had an inverted image immediately above it as at a; and two at hand c, had two distinct inverted images in the air; along with•these images there appeared images of the ice, as at b and c, intwo strata, the highest of which had an altitude of about fifteen de-grees. In a later voyage performed in…
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