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PROF. TYNDALL has done good service by drawing attention to Alpine haze, and is quite right in adding that it appears in horizontal layers. Such is its common form, but I have also observed a vertical part of it connecting two horizontal striæ rendered conspicuous by concealing portions of a setting sun, just as thick boards might do. On another occasion I saw a rough column of it towards the north-west at a supposed distance of three or four kilometres. A few hours later, while I was noting down the phenomenon, a native exclaimed that it had changed its position, and on looking north-west I could see no trace of it, a column similar in size and distance being then in the north-east. It towered above my level on a rolling plain 2300 metres above the ocean. In another place I have seen it at a height of 3600 metres.
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D'ABBADIE, A. Alpine Haze. Nature 39, 79 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/039079a0
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