This beautiful and interesting appearance arises from the leaves and stalks of the wheat being thickly bespangled with dew.

The observer's head being in the direct rays of the sun, as they pass over him to that of his shadow in the field, he carries the glory with him.

Those before and behind him see the same glory around the shadows of their own heads, but cannot see it round that of the head of any other person before or behind; because he is on one or other side of the direct rays which pass over them.

It is best seen when the sky is most clear, and the dew most heavy.

It is not seen over bushy crops such as the arahur, nor on the grass plains.
_January_ 20, 1850 .-- Beneegunge, eight miles, over a slightly- undulating plain of light sandy soil, scantily cultivated, but well studded with fine trees of the best kind.