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an hour. Though in broad daylight, the color was a bright cherry red, 
there were no scoria formed on the surface, and the motion was to the 
eye very like that of a mountain brook swollen by rain. 
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thunder, easily distinguishable from the roar of the mountain, were 
frequent. I also visited the lava at two points, distant probably two 
miles or more from the outlet. It here presented a vast wall ten 
80 speak, of the lightning flashes, in the April storm, was peculiar, re- 
ever, though new to me, may be a very common one. Among other 
atmospheric phenomena, I may mention that the zodiacal light was 
tinctly visible every night, except when the light of the moon was 
Prd sia from January to June, and in all latitudes from 21” 45’ to 
hes: and that on one occasion, we saw clearly three of the satellites of 
Piter, with the naked eye, at Cairo.. I may add that while on the 
*astern shore of the Gulf of Suez we observed at 1 P.™., at an alti- 
of about 50°, and upon the same side of the zenith with the sun, 
0g, narrow, right lined stratus cloud, exhibiting as distinctly as a 
oo the prismatic colors, the red being uppermost or towards the 
pg rom January to May the thermometer on the river stood at about 
at sunrise, and rose to from 75° to 85°, and once to 93° in the 
hottest part of the day. From the 10th to the 15th of May, when we 
an between Suez and Mount Sinai, the mercury rose every day to 
tom 100° to 116° in the shade, but at Mt. Sinai it fell to 54°, with 
inder, rain and hail, and, with the exception of a single day at Akaba, 
ie nly cool, but almost cold until July. Y 
