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pear which have somewhat of this kind of 

 arrangement, but are yet so light in their 

 texture as to partake almost of the nature of 

 the Wanecloud. In my journals have I called 

 these the cirrocumulative features of cirrostratus. 

 There are many varieties of these indeterminable 

 features : a flimsy cloud of this kind is often 

 seen in the clearer intervals of rainy weather, 

 which gives the idea of the flowers of the 

 cauliflower. The innumerable little round spots 

 of cloud which sometimes cover a great extent 

 of sky at an elevated station are sometimes of 

 this flimsy and almost transparent structure, 

 while at other times they are denser, and there- 

 fore more decidedly cirrocumuli. In some 

 kinds of weather, often with Easterly wind and 

 during cold unwholesome air, a cloud is seen 

 covering great part of the sky, which has the 

 thin and transparent texture of cirrostratus; 

 but the component nubeculae have the large 

 and rounded form of cirrocumulus ; it seems to 

 differ from the latter cloud in being shallow 

 and flimsy, and from the former in having a 

 rounded circumscription. 



Among the sportive and amusing features 

 which are exhibited under other circumstances 

 .of atmospheric peculiarities, we have sometimes 



