Further on he could detect here and there traces of a decidedly ruddy tint. Such a shade he knew had been already detected in the Palus Somnii , near Mare Crisium , and in the circular area of Lichtenberg , near the Hercynian Mountains , on the eastern edge of the Moon. To what cause was this tint to be attributed? To the actual color of the surface itself? Or to that of the lava covering it here and there? Or to the color resulting from the mixture of other colors seen at a distance too great to allow of their being distinguished separately? Impossible to tell.
Barbican and his companions succeeded no better at a new problem that soon engaged their undivided attention. It deserves some detail.
Having passed Lambert , being just over Timocharis , all were attentively gazing at the magnif
