The Eclipse is an autobiographical vignette by James Fenimore Cooper that was written between 1833 and 1838, recounting his own experience witnessing a total solar eclipse in Cooperstown on the morning of June 16, 1806.
It was published posthumously in the September 1869 issue of Putnam's Monthly Magazine.
[1] Susan Fenimore Cooper, the author's daughter, found it among his papers.
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