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IN the afternoon of Friday, the 24th ult., while proceeding by rail to Dublin, and before reaching Abbeyleix station, I observed the curious phenomenon of four rainbows forming a single bow—that is, without any dark space intervening between the colours. The four bows were all of the same, or nearly the same, breadth, but I cannot say whether all the colours were present in each.
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DOWLING, H. A Quadruple Rainbow. Nature 18, 142–143 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018142d0
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