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dried my clothes sufficiently to make this differ- 

 ence no longer noticeable. The waves became 

 more frequent than at first, but not so strong. I 

 made a clumsy climb of about five hundred feet, 

 my muscles being "muscle-bound" all the time 

 with rigidity from electricity. But this climb 

 brought me almost to timber-line on Specimen 

 Mountain, and also under the shadow of the south 

 peak of it. At this place the electrical effects 

 almost ceased. Nor did I again seriously feel the 

 current until I found myself out in the sunlight 

 which came between the two peaks of Specimen. 

 While I continued in the sunlight I felt the elec- 

 trical wave, but, strange to say, when I again 

 entered the shadow I almost wholly escaped it. 



When I started on the last slope toward the 

 top of North Specimen, I came out into the sun- 

 light again, and I also passed into an electrical 

 sea. The slope was free from snow, and as the 

 electrical waves swept in close succession, about 

 thirty seconds apart, they snapped, hummed, and 

 buzzed in such a manner that their advance and 

 retreat could be plainly heard. In passing by 



me, the noise was more of a crackling and hum- 



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