The type of miragt^ oalletl by the Ilaliaiis "Fala Morgana" (.from the fairy Morgana of Arthurian 

 romance), occurs when the images produced by the various types of mirage are abnormally elongated, 

 deformed or broken, due to the curving and irregularity of the layers of air. The one shown above was seen 

 on the Italian coast, where such mirages are common, as they are also in polar regions. After Flammarion 



The kind of mirage known as "looming" is one of the most interesting. There is no inverted image, but 

 low shores may be reflected in the sky as high cliffs, and mountains and objects far below the horizon may 

 appear lifted up in the sky and magnified. Scott and his party made use of this phenomenon in the Antarctic 

 to detect objects beyond the normal reach of vision. The picture shows a landscape with palm trees and 

 mountain as seen when lifted up and magnified by looming. This is the kind of mirage which may have given 

 rise to Peary's "Crocker Land." Ajler Appleton's Journal 



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