A manual of electricity, magnetism and meteorology (1844)
Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859, Walker, Charles Vincent, 1812-1882 · London Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans · leaf 297
260 ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY. BOOK II. water-spout began to form, at a spot on the under sideof the arch, that was darker than the rest of the line.A thin cone (fig.115.) first appeared, which gradually … became elongated, and was shortly joined by severalothers which went on increasing in length and bulkuntil the columns had reached about halfway down tothe horizon. The sea beneath had hitherto been undis-turbed; but when the columns united it became per-ceptibly agitated, and almost immediately…
Atmospheric electricity · Electricity -- Early works to 1850 · Magnetism
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