Chapter IV: Part III: Wonders of the Sky

Chap. I. The Colour of the Sky 250

Chap. II. The Aurora Borealis 254

Chap. III. Parley tells of some other Meteors
Parhelia or Mock Suns 263
Ignes Fatui 264
Experiment to show the cause 266

Chap. IV. Shooting Stars 267
What they are 269

Chap. V. Meteoric Stones, or Aerolites 273
How they are caused 277

Chap. VI. Bloody Rain 280
Red Snow 281
Showers of Frogs and Fish 282

Chap. VII. The Spectre of the Brocken 285

Chap. VIII. Some other instances of Aerial Reflection
Souter Fell 291
What a Friend of Parley's saw 293
Dover Castle 293
What Humboldt saw 294
What Captain Scoresby saw 295
Apparent distance of Object 296

Chap. IX. Fata Morgana 299
The Mirage 299

Chap. X. How Parley supposes these appearances to be produced 303
Refraction 305
Reflection 311

Conclusion.
Of some other Wonders, &c.