3. On the Nature of the Red Prominences observed during a Total Solar Eclipse

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The author remarked, that the various observers who had seen the eclipse of 1842, gave such generally similar testimony of the place and the size of the red prominences as satisfactorily established them to be some celestial phenomenon. Then as to the question, whether they belong to the sun or the moon, the observers themselves were unanimous in the former view, and the red points then became flaming masses of fire some 40,000 miles in height.