The Greenbrier Mirage.
--A lady in
Monroe county furnishes the following explanation of the phenomenon recently witnessed in
Greenbrier:
It is well known that an army of Yankees, several thousand in number, have an encampment at Fayette Court House, in the county of
Fayette, which adjoins
Greenbrier county.
At the very hour mentioned — namely, three o'clock P. M — they are daily subjected to a drill, in which they go through all their various military exercises.
Is it not probable, and more than probable, that these ærial soldiers were produced by the same cause which produces the spectre of the Brocken, and other similar apparitions ?--that owing to the accidental condensation of some atmospheric vapors at the precise time they were drilling, on the evening particularly specified, an atmospherical speculum was formed by the hand of nature in the mountainous locality of
Mr. Piercy's residence, and that the figures seen by
Mr. P.'s family were the images of this body of Yankees, who were then marching in regular order, and reflected in the air in their natural colors and forms.?