Intimate information on solar edi is provided by our correspondent, who says he witnessed the last one seen in England at Giggleswick, North Yorkshire, in 1927.
The next one visible in England is in 1999.
After motoring all night along the bleak Yorkshire wolds, Giggleswick was selected at random. It proved the, only point of perfect visibility in the totality zone.
After hours of waiting came the greatest spectacle of the universe and over a brightening sky swept the advancing line of darkness, like a gigantic fan enclosing the heaven: in its sweep.
Patient; mooing cows flopped down under the trees and prepared to sleep again: birds stopped singing: activity conjured by the earlier sunrise vanished into the stillness of night.
An eerie feeling of desolation, a strange, inexplicable chill, prevailed for a minute. In the gloom the darkened sun. was relieved by the ragged, fiery corona around jt—like the nimbus around the head of a medieval saint, Our correspondent, who's no poetic soul, could only add that he missed most of the visible side of the show searching for the. bottle Of—coffee lost among the motor Tugs spread on the moor.
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