Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s7.t5.31

v2.c27.s7.t5.31

The Mirage.—We had a magnificent mirage this morning : nor do I ever recollect observing this singularly grand phenomenon on a more extensive scale, or with greater variety of form. The morning was desperately cold ; the thermometer, as I mounted my horse, a little after sunrise, stood at 32°, the freezing-point, with a sharp biting wind from the north-east. The ground was blanched with frost, and the water-skins, or bihishtis mashaks, were covered with ice at the mouth. The slender shrubs, especially the milky ak, were completely burnt up ; and as the weather had been hitherto mild, the transition was severely felt, by things animate and inanimate [767].