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THIS morning at about a quarter before ten the sky here presented a most unusual appearance. The air was calm and the sun shining, but not brightly, through, a slight veil of cirro-stratus. The sky was mostly covered with fibrous clouds of cirrus or cirro-stratus (I am not quite sure which I ought to call it), the fibres being quite parallel to each other, but in two different strata; those of one stratum were, approximately from north-east to south-west, those of the other from north-west to south-east—so that they seemed to cross each other like the threads of a woven fabric. I think the fibres from north-east to south-west were the highest, but am not quite sure, though it seemed the same to another who was looking on with me.
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MURPHY, J. Meteorological Phenomenon. Nature 17, 82 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/017082c0
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