124 SOME RESULTS OF AN ASTRONOMICAL EXPERIMENT 
of about half of the moon’s terminator pe t part where the 
sunlight ends), while those parts of the leu uak en not in the 
had. uld ery ecaeind seen I should estimate the 
at about three-fourths that ‘of the m 
This is one of those pee Me fate which, being seen, 
should be recorded, although no explanation can at present be 
if produced by a comet it mus ne of more than ordinary 
density, although dark bodies have been seen crossing the sun, 
bang were goubtlees comets ange in the position of the 
faithfully copied on this paver what he saw. See photo- lithogr aph. 
make some experiments upon the thick- 
3 electri 
the air strata, but in this matter I was disappointed ; although 
we made every effort to get kites up above the lower current, it 
was useless. Although on the afternoon of ve 17th, in a mode- 
rate a esate wind, we managed to get the large kite up 
abou eet, there was no sign of ano oe current, and very . 
Title siecceeat ‘effect. Mr. Hirst’s experience with electrical 
kites became valuable, and he constructed a smaller one, which 
was attached to we large one, and thus we hoped to get it high 
enough; but o e 18th the westerly wind was done, and we 
got a “light artery ‘ ak would not raise our kites. The small 
one was tried time after time, and rose to about _ feet, when 
it seemed suddenly to lose the wind and no amount of vigorous 
running would take it higher. iN cape this pepe the 
thickness of the light easterly wind say, 
in one of the lulls. On the 19th, with bem easterly wind, an 
altitude of about 400 feet was reached, but no amount of pro- 
‘result was getting wearisome. On the 2lst we hada return of ~ 
“ westerly wind and our hopes revived, but were re dis- 
appointed. One fact, Ronarak is worth recording. At 10°30 a.m., 
ites Soul rise from 100 to 200 feet, “and then begin 
gyrating, as if the air was full of pate and when the two were 
in 
i ‘some 300 feet was sitainaa, #2 h wind from W.N.W.; me then 
ae satel that these were merely 
— had been trying to the kites. 
