The Green Sun

Abstract

FOR two or three days we have been having a modified repetition of the phenomena respecting which I wrote you at some length by the last mail; while, curiously enough, if there is no connection between them, the telegraph announces fresh eruptions in Java on the 16th inst. This time, however, while there is apparently about the same smoky haze in the sky, it is much thinner, showing very plainly after the sun has set, but invisible while the sun is much above the horizon. There is also very little of the refracting medium to which I referred in my last, as there is only a slight discolouration of the sun before setting, and scarcely anything of the succession of colours after ward as compared with what we had two weeks ago. I send herewith a few clippings from Indian papers in regard to the matter. The curious appearance of two weeks ago, so far as I can learn, was not seen north of Masulipatam on this side, or Calicut on the west coast.