A DOUBLE SUNSET.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 742, 3 February 1915, Page 3

A DOUBLE SUNSET.

Ten to one you would say there is 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 position the top of ft mountain known as the Cloud breaks the lino 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 pun,, 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 daily. The first time that it sets the town sinks into darkness, and the inhabitants light up their houses and shops in the usual way,: presently dawn suffuses over the town, clear daylight follows, and artificial lights are put out. At the second setting of the sun darkness sets in for good. 'lbis phenomenon continues for some 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 for some time, and emerges from behind just below the head, and throws daylight out upon the locality onca more, when he again sinks behind the mountain's shoulders, and finally sets. ~ ~i^