Show colors color of tho airline sky shy when the alpino sun is setting or better ehll acine time after it lizs haa set leavin leaving tho the limbs and shoulders of the mountains in shadow while their snowy rests are arc bathed by the retreating retreat ine light a 1 iho I 16 snow glows with a beauty and solem clity acty hardly equaled by any other natural phenomenon so also when first illumined by the rays of the sun the mountain heads under favorable atmospheric condil ins shino shine like rubies and ill III this splendor is evoked by the simple mechanism of minute particles themselves without color colar suspended in the mr those who referred the extraordinary succession of atmospheric glows witnessed somo some years ago to a vast and violent discharge of volcanic ashes were bealing with a true cause the fine bloating residue of such ashes would un be able to produce the effects inscribed to it still the mechanism to produce the morning and evening red hough of variable efficiency is always present in the atmosphere I 1 have sen seen lis displays plays equal in magnificence nce to the enest of those above referred to when hen when K there was no special volcanic outburst to which they could bo be referred it was waa the long continued repetition of the glows which rendered the volcanic theory highly probable professor john kyndall in the chii forum |