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ON the morning of December 5, 1922, about 10.30 A.M. G.M.T., Mr. John Anderson, lightkeeper at the Cape Wrath Lighthouse, Durness, observed a mirage of an unusual character. Mr. Anderson focussed his telescope on a sheep which was grazing on top of a conical hill (height about 200 feet) about a quarter of a mile away, and immediately noticed an unusual appearance in the atmosphere around. On swinging the telescope slightly upward, he observed that a belt of the atmosphere appeared to be land and sea, giving a perfect representation of the whole of the coast line from Cape Wrath to Dunnet Head.
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BRUNT, D. A Double-Vertical-Reflection Mirage at Cape Wrath. Nature 111, 222–223 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111222a0
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