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center." spectroscope. 412, 434. [p. 295] half. He gives other observations seeming to indicate structure--"remarkable dark marking down the In Nature, 27-84, Capron says that because of the moonlight he had been able to do little with the Color white, but aurora rosy (Nature, 27-87). Bright stars seen through it, but not at the zenith, where it looked opaque. This is the only assertion of transparency (Nature, 27-87). Too slow for a meteor, but too fast for a cloud (Nature, 27-86). "Surface had a mottled appearance" (Nature, 27-87). "Very definite in form, like a torpedo" (Nature, 27-100). "Probably a meteoric object" (Dr. Groneman, Nature, 27-296). Technical demonstration by Dr. Groneman, that it was a cloud of meteoric matter (Nature, 28-105). See Nature, 27-315, 338, 365, 388, "Very little doubt it was an electric phenomenon" (Proctor, Knowledge, 2-419). In the London Times, Nov. 20, 1882, the Editor says that he had received a great number of letters upon this phenomenon. He publishes two. One correspondent describes it as "well-defined and shaped like a fish ... extraordinary and alarming." The other correspondent writes of it as "a most magnificent luminous mass, shaped somewhat like a torpedo." The Book of the Damned, by Charles Fort, [1919], at sacred-texts.com