A DOUBLE SUNSET.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 663, 25 April 1914, Page 7

A DOUBLE SUNSET.

Ten to one you would say there i® no place where the above occurs, but the very curious astronomical phenomenon really occurs in the heavens at a certain time of the year, and can only be witnessed by standing in the parish churchyard of Leek, in Staffordshire. From that pos'ition the top of a mountain known as the Cloud breaks the line of sight, and fully interrupts your view of the setting of the sun. This mountain is six miles distant as the crow flies from the town of Leek, and owing to 'its peculiar formation causes the sun, when it has entered that sign of the zodiac known as Cancer, which happens when we are about halfway through the year, to produce the strange effect- of setting twice cla'ilyTh2 first time that it sets the town sinks into darkness, and tlio inh:\':Uants light up their houses and shops in the usual way : presently dawn suffuses over the town, clear :!aylight follows, and artiflcial lights are put out. At the second setting of thi sun darkness sets in for good. "(his phenomenon continues for come days. ( ' The head and shoulders of the distant mountain intervene just at the juncture when the sun at the first setting drops behind the top or head of the mountain. There he hides fo. - some time, and emerges from behind just below the head, and throws daylight out upon the locality once more, when he again sinks behind (Jig mountain's shoulders, and fina'ly sets.