A Case of Slow, Sub-Tropical Discharge of Earth-Electricity, and the Sun Recognisant thereof

Abstract

IN the course of yesterday afternoon, in the midst of a sky otherwise clear and exquisitely blue, a large cloud of unusual shape and character began to form in the upper regions of the atmosphere vertically over, but very far above, the southern slope and even most elevated mountain tops of Madeira, and remaining there, as it did, most fixedly more than half the day, so contrary to the locomotive habits of ordinary clouds, it soon attracted the attention, and presently the fears, of most of the inhabitants.