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...cloudy up to a few minutes before totality set in, but then cleared off beautifully. Miss Cannon, who was stationed at Vassar, reports the same excellent weather conditions. She comments especially on the conspicuous appearance of the shadow bands just before and just after totality, which wavered darkly over the snow. These shadow bands are weird meteorological phenomena about which we know very little...
...skies of Northamptonshire cast a twilight about the old house, blurring the trees that lined the avenue up which no one came. Everyone else, indeed, had gone long ago, but still they stayed-beauties, wits, gallants, a decent sheet pulled over the face of each in the silence and shadow of the voiceless gallery...
...clock.--Sun will be a very thin crescent. The atmosphere will look stormy. Observers should watch for shadow bands on sides of white buildings and on the snow. The thin crescent of the sun breaks up into glittering points of light, which astronomers have dubbed Baily's beads...
Look quickly towards the west. Rushing from the horizon the shadow passes from west to east at a speed of two thousand miles an hour...
...Having found," Dr. Halley is reported as saying, "by comparing what had been formerly observed of solar eclipses, that the whole shadow would fall upon England, I thought it a very proper opportunity to get the dimension of the shade, ascertained by observation. And accordingly, I caused a small map of England describing the track and bounds thereof, to be dispersed all over the kingdom, with a request to the curious to observe what they could about it, but more especially to note the time of continuance of total darkness...