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THE last two days and nights here have been very fine with sunrises and sunsets as already described. This evening especially the colours were most brilliant, and did not fade away until at least an hour after sunset. It may interest those who are trying to account for this extraordinary appearance of the sky to know that here it has been followed by excessive rain and very bad weather. During December we had 9.57 against an average for the last twenty-two years of 4.46 inches. The greatest December rainfall registered at our Scutari Cemetery was 10.36 in 1862, the least being one inch in 1868. A printer's error makes me speak, in my letter of December 21, of a crescent moon “eighteen” days instead of 1.8 day old.
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J., W. The Remarkable Sunsets. Nature 29, 260 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029260d0
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