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minated. From its eastern margin, rays or processes 
were seen stretching as high as fifty degrees, and as 
far as due east. 
“ Before the sun had reached his meridian altitude, 
the prolongations had become faint, and passed into 
detached feathery clouds, which collected at the ze- 
nith and lost the radiated arrangement altogether. 
The mass of cloud stratus to the south (magnetic), 
also, had blended with the usual hank about the ho- 
rizon.” 
