Show TRAVELERS TALES THE SHRACE The mirage can be seen nearly everyday every-day In the plains of Lower Egypt and also to a limited extent in the plains or Hungary and Southern France Now and then something of the kind can be seen In summer by stooping down and looking along our sandy coasts such as More cambe bay and the coast of Devonshire or over the Fen district at that season dried up by the summer heat We must remember that the mirage of the desert creates nothing but merely inverts In-verts bodies that actually exist a lltllo distance off though in the Sahara skylight sky-light rays descending are bent upward by the hot air next the sand and the eye is actually deluded by the impression resembling re-sembling the reflection of skylight from water the illusion being increased by the lckerng due to convection currents suggesting ter sug-gesting the effects of a breeze on the wa terMany of the descriptions given of the mirage are travelers tales in the uncomplimentary un-complimentary sense One of the most absurdly extravagant examples of this is the following This treacherous phenomenon phe-nomenon deludes the travelers eye with a regular succession of beautiful lakes and shady avenues and then again with an expanse of waving grass around a picturesque villa here is presented a grove of towering trees there a flock of browsing cattle Chambers Journal |