The Eclipse of the Sun

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 13, 11 July 1885, Page 3

The Eclipse of the Sun

Dr Hector contributes to the Wellington Evening Press a most interesting Article on the total eclipse of the sun which takes place in September. He gayi .— • " If the morning is fine and clear the scene will be impressive beyond deieription. The landscape will darken trith a tint quite unlike that of the dusk of evening, and produce a feeling of intense sadness. The familiar natural features wilt disappear as they become ■tripped of their shadows, so that the sense of distance will be lost, colours will become distorted, and the faces of men wiU assume a livid hue. Fowls will roost, flowers will close, and most animals will give vent to agonising cries. •nd a perception of horror and helplessness -ftll prevail among all living beings, At tbe time mentioned for the commencement of totality, the gloomy darkness will reach a climax; and suddenly round the black spot in the sky that marks tbe conjoined bodies of the son and moon tbeir will spring into view a grand halo of eoft silvery light extendiag. perhaps to twice -the width, of the moon in all directions. A woven interlacing of of filaments of silvery light that, from previous accounts, seem never to retain tbe came appearance to different observer! at the »ame time.