THE AMMIL ON DARTMOOR. 391 
The ammil continued for two days and nights, and has not 
since returned. 
The writer did not personally witness the phenomenon in situ, 
but he saw a specimen of the formation in the form of a large 
branch of a tree brought to Plymouth by the driver of a fly 
returned that morning from the neighbourhood of the Moor, who 
took it from his coach-boy, and showed it to him as a curiosity. 
The ammil is rarely seen on the Moor, but it is understood that 
an appearance somewhat similar is sometimes witnessed in the 
northern counties of England, and occasionally in Canada; but it 
is not known that it is anywhere described in print. 
A full note of this phenomenon was made at the time of its 
occtirrence by one of my daughters, who witnessed it, of which the 
above is the substance. 
LNs aD. 
