“The citizens of Buffalo, N.Y., ended up handled to a extraordinary mirage between ten and 11 o’clock on the early morning of August 16. It was the town of Toronto, with its harbor and modest island to the south of the town. Toronto is fifty-6 miles from Buffalo, but the church spires could be counted with the finest ease. This mirage is what is known as a mirage of the third order. That is, the item looms up far over the serious level and not inverted, as is the scenario with mirages of the first and 2nd course, but showing like a perfect landscape far away in the sky.”

—Scientific American, August 1894

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