4 AUGUST 1883, Page 16

A CORRECTION.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—Pray, Sir, have the kindness to inform an admiring but perplexed reader of your article on M. de Lesseps how, at five a.m., and with the sun, therefore, in the east, a rainbow could stretch from east to west, seeing that a rainbow is always at right angles to a lino drawn from it to the sun, and must at that hour have stretched from north to south P—I am, Sir, &c.,

A. C. C.

[Our correspondent does not see that we are not responsible for the authenticity of M. de Lesseps' vision. If it were in- correctly described, so as to make the rainbow of good augury, so much the more evidence of the depth of the superstition in the mind of the man who so described it.—En. Spectator.]