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CLOUDY formations worthy of being noticed have been observed by me during the week. On the 8th I chanced to take a walk with M. Gustave Flourens, who has since been sentenced to death by court-martial. At five o'clock we witnessed many ribboned clouds parallel to each other, and so long that they appeared to radiate from a common focus. These ribboned clouds termicated abruptly just over our heads, and their extremities were noalescent, so that the appearance was one of a feather with the vanes of the quill emanating from one side. The wind was blowing perpendicularly to the vanes and parallel to the quill. This accumulation of matter was evidently owing to the purity of the air on the other side of the singular cloud-edge.
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DE FONVIELLE, W. Forms of Clouds. Nature 3, 405 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003405a0
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