OBSERVATIONS, APRIL 25—May 2. 1843. 
SPECIES OF CLOUDS, &e. 
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| 22. Cirrous-edged cumuli and cumulo-strati. 
| 0. Many cumuli + nimbi to E. and SE. 
| 2. Scud and loose-edged cumuli; a smart shower of hail lately. 
_ 4, Scud + cumuli near horizon ; woolly cirri to SE. ; most of the sky covered with a thick milky haze. 
6. Seud + thick cirrous haze ; cumuli near horizon ; light rain. 
8. Id. + hs sky to NW. 
10. Scud ? 
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| 20. Patches of cirrous scud + cirrous clouds and haze on E. horizon; cumuli on S. and SE. horizon. 
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18. Clear; cirro-strati on S. and E. horizon. 
90. Cirro-cumulous scud to E. Thermometer in the sun 77°. 
22. Loose-edged cumuli. 
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. Scud + sky covered with a thick milky mass of clouds; a few drops of rain. 
0. Id. + thick cirrous haze above. 
22. Id.; light rain. 
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| 6. Scud and loose-edged cumuli + mottled cirri and cirro-cumuli to W.; cumulo-strati to E. and SE.; haze 
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| 6. Scud and loose cumuli + patches of cirri to S.; cirro-strati to NE. 
| 8. Cirro-strati, cirro-cumuli, and mottled cirri. 
10. Cirro-cumulous scud, with which the sky was suddenly covered about half an hour ago. 
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. Masses of mottled and diffuse cirri and cirro-cumuli; thick mass of cirro-strati and haze near the horizon. A parhelion to the S. of the sun; 
it is of about the same size, and at the same altitude as the sun, but soon becomes elongated like a portion of a halo; the side nearest the 
sun is orange and the other greenish-yellow. 
20. Patches of scud, moving along N. and S. horizon + woolly and diffuse cirri and cirrous haze. 
22. Many cirro-cumulito E. + masses of seud, twisting and moying in all directions ; linear cirri to W.; cumuliand cumulo-strati on N. and S, horizon. 
0. Scud and cumuli + linear and reticulated cirri, becoming cirrous haze. 
9. Patches of loose cumuli and scud + sky covered with cirrous haze ; the cirri at 14 were cymoid and moved from S. 
4. Mottled cirri and cirro-cumuli, cirrous haze; scud moving along E. horizon. 
6. Two currents of scud +~ cirro-cumuli. 
8. A dense mass of cirro-stratus and haze. 
10. Scotch mist. 
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18. Linear and mottled cirri; thick fog ; much hoar-frost. 
20. Woolly, mottled, woven and curled cirri pointing from E. 
|22. Woolly and reticulated cirri, linear cirri to E. and N.; masses of fleecy cirrous clouds to W.; cirrous haze near horizon. 
| 0. Thin woolly and striated cirri, lying from ENE. to SSW.; thick cirrous haze to N. and E. 
Woolly and curled cirri; a band of curled cirri stretching across the sky from E. by N. to W. by S.; cirrous haze on N. and E. horizon. 
4. Cirrous haze near horizon ; patches of woolly cirri. 
| 6. Cirri, scattered over the sky in all directions. 
8. Woolly and reticulated cirri; cirrous haze on horizon. 
0. Clear ; a streak of cirro-stratus to N. 
18. Woolly and woven cirri to ESE. ; thick fog rising from the hollows ; heavy dew. 
Long lines of flame-like cirri like long feathers ; the flame-like cirri rising from a midrib which points from ESE., the cirri pointing from NNE, 
Chiefly woolly and striated cirri; sheets of woolly cirri to W. and 8., near horizon. 
). Beautiful flame-like cirri. 
2. Flame-like cirri, more curled, woolly cirri; scud and haze on E. horizon. 
| MAG. AND MET. oss, 1843. 2H 
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