onade at Clapton. 15g 



Feb. 12. — Overcast antl hazy day; towards night the 

 wind rose and became high wilh some small rain. 



Feb. 13. — Fine clear morning, with drrocumulus and 

 cirrus, while cunndi sailed along lower down : afterwards 

 cumviisfratus continued to form through the day ; but the 

 night became clear, and the stars shone bright I observed 

 a very small meteor about eleven o'clock. W. 



Feb. 14. — Rain set in early, and its streams continued to 

 increase in size and strength all the morning, with rising 

 wind; in the aFternoon it cleared, but the wind continued 

 high, and got IVora S.W. to N.W. The jjhaenomenon of 

 the old moon in the new moon's horns, as it is called, was 

 very clearly conspicuous this evening. Some common kind 

 of small meteors by night. 



Feb. 15. — Fine morning; very high up mnch spreading 

 Cirrus passed on gently from N.N.W. breaking out into 

 various forms, in some places giving the idea of fine gra- 

 nulations; in others arranged in beautiful rows of spots, 

 approaching to cirrocumulus , or stretched along in tufts, its 

 fibres veigmg in diflerent directions: lower down loose 

 flimsy cirrocumulus ; and still lower, masses oi cumulus and 

 what sailors call scud floated rapidly along in the west wind : 

 by and by cumulostratus formed by inosculation, as it 

 seemed, and obscured the sky. 



Feb.\Q. — Features of confused cirrus appeared aloft; 

 cumulus lower; afterwards cumulostratus, and general ob- 

 sciirity : rain at night. W. 



Feb. 17. — Cirrus, Sec. followed by wind and rain in the 



morning; afterwards showers and clear intervals ; at night 



very cloudy with rain and very boisterous wind. W. 



Feb. 18. — Misty overcast morning, and fair day. N.W. 



Feb. ly. — Misty, overcast and windy; clear night with a 



few light clouds. S.W. and S. 



Feb. 20. — Clear morning with much linear cirrus ex- 

 tending north and south ; afterwards various cirrus and 

 cirrocumulm in different altitudes. At night a corona* 

 roiind the moon was sometimes double and coloured, at 

 others single and of various sizes, according to varieties in 

 the intervening cloud. 

 Five Housts, Clapton, Feh-Sl, 1512. ThOMAS FoRSTER. 



• At tiiTW>9 the roronn appeared almost Iriph. I have said in my paper on 

 iJff/onrs.that a triple ioiomi was ^c!<V>ti seen. I liave, however, since writing 

 that, teen several. 



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