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ON January 4 last, while watching a very bright rainbow with a good secondary from Hoylake racecourse, I observed between the two bows a third, fainter than either, touching the primary at the base and extending upwards in such a way that probably, had it all been visible, it would have touched the secondary at the vertex. It was not all visible because of a break in the clouds. Its colours were in the same order as those of the primary, red outside. This third bow was only visible at one side; but a gentleman who observed it stated that he had seen it before, and symmetrical on both sides, though not extending to the vertex.
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WILLIS, J. Meteorological Phenomena. Nature 33, 319 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033319a0
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