By a miracle of good luck Giggleswick, where the Astronomer
Royal had pitched his astronomical camp, was one of the very few places from which the total eclipse of the sun was perfectly seen on Wednesday morning. And even there the vision splendid appeared in a sky that was clear for only a few minutes. Else- where the sun was seen mistily or not at all. In London the rainy clouds washed out everything. But the disappointed people who missed a wonder that has not been presented to England for two hundred years could console themselves with the reflection that Caesar and his fortunes were at Giggleswick. The Astronomer Royal has reported in the Daily Mail that totality began three seconds earlier than had been expected. The streamers of the corona reached 1,350,000 miles beyond the sun's surface.
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