MOCK SUN.
[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—After three days of glorious sunshine we were driving home, at about half-past seven, from the mountain lake of Cwm Buchan towards Ilarlech, when we saw part of the sky had become dappled overhead, and to the west the sun was declining in a misty cloud, already catching some hues of sunset. We became suddenly aware of what appeared to be another sun flushed with faint red and yellow light, and looking like a portion of a lost rainbow. This mock sun was some distance from the true sun and to the east of it, but there was no corresponding mock sun to the west of the real sun, as I think there ought to have been to make the phenomenon complete; but I think this was owing to a somewhat opaque cloud banging over that portion of the sky. This morning is pouring wet. Hine illae lacrimae !—I am,
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