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MADEIRA METEOROLOGIC. 



PART IV. 



dinary phenomenon at every opportunity they may 

 enjoy of seeing it repeat itself in the skies above their 

 heads ; they neglecting at the same time nothing in 

 the contemporary physics of the sun, and of the earth 

 as a whole. 



At present, therefore, I will only seek to conclude 

 this paper with a very few words on the more general 

 and practical results, both to plants and man, flowing 

 from the island's ordinary, but most peculiar, meteoro- 

 logical conditions ; and chiefly from the large quantity 

 of invisible watery vapour it holds in suspension, without 

 being saturated thereby. 



Evening appearance of the remarkable cloud of June 26, 1881. 



