Oldal 46 [46]
24 LIGHT AND WATER
reflected bow would be scarcely noticeable, but it seems that
in a large proportion of those probably very rare cases, in
which the sheet of water is large enough and smooth enough
for the purpose, it might be quite conspicuous. On the only
occasion on which the writer remembers to have seen the
reflexion of a rainbow in water, its extremities were hidden
by near objects, so that he had no opportunity of observing
any break.