Excerpt from Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Containing Papers, Abstracts of Papers, and Reports of the Proceedings of the Society, From November 1869, to June 1870, Vol. 30: Being the Annual Half-Volume of the Memoirs and Proceedings of the Royal Astronomical Society The total eclipse of June 16th, 1806, which occurred here, central, about half-an-hour before noon, was the finest in the United States in the nineteenth century. The duration of totality at Boston and at our neighbouring city, Salem (where it was observed with great care by the late Dr. Bowditch), was five minutes. The excitement about it was great indeed, yet no one saw any red flames, and Dr. Bowditch never gave the least hint that he saw any; and a very intelligent gentleman of Lynnfield, who saw that eclipse in that town, and distinctly recollects the phenomena attending it, and the last eclipse at Springfield, Illinois, tells me he is positive the darkness in June 1806 was much deeper, and that there were no flames, as he certainly must have seen them, as he easily did at Springfield. Yet at the second and third returns of the eclipse of 1806, in 1842, and 1860, these flames were generally observed. The fourth return on July 29th, 1878, will be central in the United States, in Colorado, Texas, &c., and will therefore, doubtless, be carefully observed by even a greater number than that of August last, although then the number of observers on the central line, or very near it, was not small. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.